<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; "> Graham John wrote:</div> <div><meta charset="UTF-8"><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span><div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>John wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> A question for those with a greater understanding than me of the Framework for method ringing, does it</div><div>> now allow you to have calls that shorten the lead of a method? If that's the case then the short lead</div><div>> could potentially be classified as a "shortened" lead of Wooler rather than a new little method.</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, the Framework covers the use of calls that shorten or lengthen a lead. I am not aware of this being exploited though. There are a number of compositions where I have thought that they would be more simply expressed by the use of such calls rather than defining and splicing new methods. It is also something I intend to support in Complib, but have not yet got round to. Some examples would be good upon which to test the design for it. </div><div><br></div><div>Graham</div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">This quarter peal composition of Spliced Minor - https://complib.org/composition/73875 - uses a half lead call that shortened the lead by four rows in order to get a different length. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The base composition is two false methods spliced in equal halves to make a true 1440 - then shortened a little for reasons I don’t recall. While it may not be a mainstream example, it was rung as “omitted changes”.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Phil</div></body></html>