[r-t] Philip's new Decisions, including Wiki page

[Don Morrison]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Graham John <graham at changeringing.co.uk> wrote:
> Below is a comparison of the new decisions proposed by Philip Earis and the
> current decisions, showing deleted text from the original decisions
> highlighted in yellow, and the possible implications in red.

Ah, no. It's all the same color for me, and presumably anyone else
using a non-HTML mail client. As you can see below, it's pretty
inscrutable without some kind of distinguishing marks.

Come to think of it, doesn't the mailing list de-HTML-ify things, so
even those who are not colour blind and are using HTML mail clients
won't be seeing the colour?

> A. Conditions required for all peals
>
> A peal shall start and end with rounds and shall be rung without interval.
>
> Peals may start at a row other than rounds.
>
> No row shall be struck more than once before the next change is made.
>
> While removal of this clause accommodates the situation that can occur in
> some multi-extent blocks, it also allows a band to ring a peal of Minor
> using one extent with each row repeated 7 times.
>
> Every bell must sound at every row throughout the peal.
>
> Can continue if the clapper falls out? Can ring a peal on something other
> than bells?
>
> Each bell must be rung continuously by the same person or persons.
>
> Relay peals are acceptable?
>
> For handbells the bells shall be retained in hand.
>
> You can put your handbells down while you have a sandwich?
>
> For tower bells the bells shall be audible outside the building in which
> they are contained.
>
> You can ring with simulated sound internally?
>
> No assistance of any kind shall be given to any ringers by any person not
> ringing in the peal.
>
> Phil says "unfair assistance" What then would be considered fair assistance?
>
> The use of physical aids to memory in conducting and ringing is not
> permitted.
> No error in calling shall be corrected later than during the change at which
> the call or change of method would properly take effect.
>
> Presumably left to be covered by 10 below based upon an interpretation of
> immediately.
>
> Any shift or error in ringing shall be corrected immediately.
> The methods and calls used in all peals shall conform to the Definitions and
> Requirements given in Part A of the Decisions on Methods and Calls.
>
> If the rules in this section are followed, anything is allowed, including
> jump changes.
>
> Any objection which may be taken to a peal other than one with respect to
> the truth of the composition, shall be raised in writing to the conductor
> and Society concerned at the earliest date, and in any case within one month
> after the publication in The Ringing World.
>
> The implication of omitting this rule is unclear. Does it mean that nobody
> can raise an objection, or that if the do, they can raise it at any time
> after the event? The original rule does not seem to oblige the council to do
> anything in respect of such complaints. The new decisions have applied
> objection just to Record peals and then by reporting it to the Ringing World
> in an specified time limit, not the conductor and society.
>
> B. Particular conditions required for peals on different numbers of bells
>
> Peals of Minimus shall be rung on tower bells only.
>
> Peals of Minimus can be rung on handbells etc?
>
> Peals on three, two or one bell are possible (Because this section defines
> the allowed stages)?
>
> Peals of Minimus, Doubles, Minor and Triples shall be rung on four, five,
> six and seven bells respectively, or on five, six, seven and eight bells
> with the tenor as cover, and shall consist of at least 5040 changes rung in
> any combination of the following, each starting from rounds:-
>
> Peals don't need to be rung on bells?
>
> Peals can have multiple cover bells.
>
> Peals below Major can have between 5000 and 5039 rows.
>
> Peals don't have to start in Rounds.
>
> The tenor does not need to be the cover bell.
>
> (a)    Extents, in which each of the possible rows at that stage occurs once
> and only once.
>
> One partial extent is permitted.
>
> (b) Round blocks of two or more extents in which each of the possible rows
> at that stage occurs the same number of times.
>
> One partial extent is permitted in a round block.
>
> Peals of Major, Caters, Royal, etc. shall be rung on eight, nine, ten, etc.
> bells respectively, or on nine, ten, eleven, etc. bells with the tenor as
> cover, and shall consist of at least 5000 true changes.
>
> Major and above can be rung in multiple extents or round blocks including a
> partial extent.
>
> Peals of 'Variable Cover Minimus', 'Variable Cover Doubles' and 'Variable
> Cover Minor' shall be rung on five, six and seven bells respectively and
> shall consist of at least 5040 changes rung in any combination of the
> following each starting from rounds:-
>
> (a) Variable cover extents, in which each of the possible rows, treated as
> being at the next higher stage, occurs once and only once.
>
> (b) Round blocks of two or more variable cover extents in which each of the
> possible rows, treated as being at the next higher stage, occurs the same
> number of times.
>
> (c) Extents or round blocks with the tenor as cover as permitted in 2 above.
>
> Peals of 'Variable Cover Triples', 'Variable Cover Major', 'Variable Cover
> Caters', etc. shall be rung on eight, nine, ten, etc. bells respectively,
> with a cover bell which is not always the tenor, and shall consist of at
> least 5000 true changes. The truth is determined by treating all the rows as
> being at the next higher stage.
> Peals of 'Minimus and Doubles', 'Doubles and Minor' and 'Minor and Triples'
> shall be rung on five, six and seven bells respectively and shall consist of
> at least 5040 changes rung in any combination of the following each starting
> from rounds:-
>
> (a) Extents or round blocks at the lower stage as permitted in 4 above.
>
> (b) Extents or round blocks at the higher stage as permitted in 2 above.
>
> (c) Mixed stage extents, with a cover bell when ringing the lower stage, in
> which each of the rows possible at the higher stage occurs once and only
> once.
>
> (d) Round blocks of two or more mixed stage extents, with a cover bell when
> ringing the lower stage, in which each of the rows possible at the higher
> stage occurs the same number of times.
>
> The peal is described as 'Variable Cover Minimus and Doubles', 'Variable
> Cover Doubles and Minor' and 'Variable Cover Minor and Triples' respectively
> if the cover when ringing the lower stage is not always the same bell.
>
> Peals of 'Triples and Major', 'Major and Caters', 'Caters and Royal', etc.
> shall be rung on eight, nine, ten, etc. bells respectively, with a cover
> bell when ringing the lower stage, and shall consist of at least 5000 true
> changes. The truth is determined by treating all the rows as being at the
> higher stage. The peal is described as 'Variable Cover Triples and Major',
> 'Variable Cover Major and Caters', 'Variable Cover Caters and Royal', etc.
> if the cover when ringing the lower stage is not always the same bell.
> Reports of variable cover peals shall state the number of different cover
> bells and the number of changes of cover bell.
>
> The new decisions are silent on Variable Cover, but do not specify that the
> tenor has to be cover either. Determination of extents and truth etc in
> respect of variable cover may be undefined. It is intended to cover this by
> defining methods included the cover bell, but then definition of an extent
> is a problem.
>
> You don't need to state the number of different cover bells or changes of
> cover bell.
>
> C. Peals in more than one method
>
> Compositions in more than one method in which the change of method occurs at
> the lead-head and/or the half-lead shall be called 'Spliced'. In the case of
> compositions containing changes of method at both the half-lead and the
> lead-head, all the methods shall be symmetrical about the half-lead with no
> two of them differing only in the places made at the half-lead and/or the
> lead-head.
>
> Any peal containing more than one method is described as Spliced, with no
> restrictions.
>
> Peals consisting of extents and/or round blocks shall only be called Spliced
> if each extent or round block is spliced.
>
> Any peal containing more than one method is described as Spliced.
>
> Doubles variations may be included in an extent or round block provided that
> either all the variations and methods have the same call or calls, and there
> is at least one plain lead of each, or all the variations and methods have
> the same plain course with no calls common to any two or more, and all the
> distinctive calls are made for each variation and method.
>
> Doubles variations are not covered.
>
> Peal reports shall state the number and names of all methods and all
> variations separately. For peals of Spliced the number of changes of method
> at lead-head and at half-lead shall be stated separately, and for peals of
> Triples and above the number of changes rung in each method shall be stated.
> In peals consisting of extents and/or round blocks the methods rung in each
> extent and/or round block shall be listed separately.
>
> Variations don't need to be reported.
>
> The number of changes of method doesn't need to be reported.
>
> Extents don't need to be reported separately
>
> A peal of Minor in seven extents, would be 7-Spliced S Minor.
>
> D. Record length peals
>
> The Record Length Peal in a method or group of methods on a given number of
> bells shall be the longest length complying with parts A to D. Tower-bell
> and handbell records shall be kept separately. Variable cover records shall
> be kept separately.
>
> Record Length Peals of 10,000 or more changes must comply with the
> additional conditions below. Any such performance not rung in full
> compliance with these conditions shall not be published in The Ringing
> World. The Editor of The Ringing World shall refer all peals of 10,000 or
> more changes to the Peal Records Committee before publication.
>
> The peal will be published in the Ringing World, before referral to the Peal
> Records Committee, even though it may not comply.
>
> (a) Not less than 14 days' notice shall be given in The Ringing World,
> stating the place, date and hour at which the attempt is to be made, and
> stating the method, number of bells and number of changes proposed to be
> rung. A copy of the notice shall be sent to the Peal Records Committee.
>
> (b) The ringing to be heard and the figures of the composition to be checked
> throughout the peal by a competent umpire or umpires.
>
> (c) If a record length is rung the peal report and the figures of the
> composition, if not previously published, shall be sent immediately to the
> Chairman of the Peal Records Committee.
>
> (d) For handbell peals, every ringer shall ring at least two bells.
> Additionally, arrangements shall be made for interested persons to be able
> to hear the attempt.
>
> Ringers may ring one bell for record handbell peals.
>
> E. Analysis
>
> The Analysis shall include all peals published in The Ringing World and
> shall identify peals not complying with parts A to D above.
>
> Not required by the new decisions.
>
> (E) METHODS AND CALLS
>
> A. Definitions and requirements
>
> (a) A change is the progress from one row (permutation) to the next,
> effected by the interchange of bells in adjacent positions in the row.
>
> A change is not defined.
>
> Jump changes would be accepted.
>
> Repeated  rows would be accepted with the constraints of multiple extents.
>
> (b) A method is defined by the places made between successive rows of its
> plain course, which shall be a true round block, divisible into equal parts
> which are called leads. Starting the plain course from a different change
> does not give a different method.
>
> A method can be false in the plain course.
>
> A lead is not defined.
>
> Starting in a different place gives a different method?
>
> (b)   The first row in each lead is known as the lead-head. The last row in
> each lead is known as the lead-end row. The change following the lead-end
> row is known as the lead-end change.
>
> Not defined.
>
> (d) Bells that are in the same position at each lead-head in a course are
> known as hunt bells. Bells that are not in the same position at each
> lead-head in a course are known as working bells. There shall be more
> working bells than hunt bells.
>
> There can be more hunt bells than working bells.
>
> (e) There are four types of method:
>
> Methods with hunt bells are known as hunters if all the working bells do the
> same work in the plain course and the number of leads is the same as the
> number of working bells.
> Methods with no hunt bells are known as principles if all the working bells
> do the same work in the plain course and the number of leads is the same as
> the number of bells.
> Methods with no hunt bells are known as differentials if all the working
> bells do not do the same work in the plain course or the number of leads is
> not the same as the number of bells.
> Methods with hunt bells are known as differential hunters if all the working
> bells do not do the same work in the plain course or the number of leads is
> not the same as the number of working bells.
>
> Differentials and differential hunters no longer exist.
>
> (f) Except for Minimus methods, no bell shall make more than four
> consecutive blows in the same position in a plain course.
>
> Bells may make more than four consecutive blows in one place regardless of
> stage.
>
> (g) A method has palindromic symmetry if it is the same method when rung
> backwards, that is when the order of the changes is inverted. A method has
> double symmetry if it is the same method when reversed, that is when the
> places within each change are inverted. A method has rotational symmetry if
> it is the same method when reversed and rung backwards.
>
> Symmetry is not defined.
>
> A call is a means of passing from one course of a method to another. It is
> effected by altering the places made between two or more consecutive rows,
> without altering the length of a lead. It is not part of the definition of
> the method.
>
> A call can move to a different point in the same course.
>
> A call only affects two adjacent rows (reverting to a previous version of
> the decisions before it was changed to accommodate Grandsire Single and
> Scientific etc).
>
> (a) Standard calls are defined for the following plain Doubles methods.
>
> For methods with palindromic symmetry and one plain hunt bell, standard
> calls are those that only affect the places made when the plain hunt bell is
> leading.
> For methods with no internal places made below two coursing hunt bells,
> standard calls are those that only affect the places made while the first
> hunt bell hunts down or is leading and that cause the changes rung to be
> symmetrical about the first hunt bell's lead.
> For methods with no internal places made above two coursing hunt bells,
> standard calls are those that only affect the places made while the first
> hunt bell hunts up or is lying behind and that cause the changes rung to be
> symmetrical about the first hunt bell's lie behind.
>
> (b) Where standard calls are defined for a plain Doubles method, a variation
> is defined as the use of calls other than the standard calls.
>
> (c) Each variation must by itself be capable of producing a true six-score,
> and may be given its own name.
>
> The decisions have no separate treatment of Doubles or allowance for
> variations.
>
> B. Classification of methods with one hunt bell
>
> Definitions
>
> (a) A well-formed path is one in which the hunt bell has the same path if it
> is rung backwards and is symmetrical about two places made half a lead
> apart.
>
> (b) In Plain methods the hunt bell has a well-formed path and strikes two
> blows in each position of the path within the lead.
>
> (c) In Treble Dodging methods the hunt bell has a well-formed path, strikes
> more than two but the same number of blows in each position of the path
> within the lead and makes only two places within the lead.
>
> (d) A cross section is a change at which the hunt bell passes from one
> dodging position to another.
>
> cross section is undefined.
>
> Methods with one hunt bell are classified in paragraphs (a) to (h), and are
> further classified as Little if the path of the hunt bell is restricted to
> fewer positions than the number of bells.
>
> Little is undefined.
>
> (a) Place methods are Plain methods in which the path of each bell consists
> only of hunting and place-making.
>
> (b) Bob methods are all other Plain methods.
>
> (c) Treble Bob methods are Treble Dodging methods in which the hunt bell
> dodges in only one position, or that have no internal places made at any
> cross section.
>
> (d) Surprise methods are Treble Dodging methods in which at least one
> internal place is made at every cross section.
>
> (e) Delight methods are all other Treble Dodging methods.
>
> (f) In Treble Place methods, the hunt bell has a well-formed path, strikes
> the same number of blows in each position of the path within the lead and
> makes more than two places within the lead.
>
> (g) In Alliance methods, the hunt bell has a well-formed path, but does not
> strike the same number of blows in each position of the path.
>
> (h) In Hybrid methods, the hunt bell does not have a well-formed path.
>
> C. Classification of methods with two or more hunt bells
>
> Each hunt bell is either a principal hunt or a secondary hunt. The
> properties (a) to (e) are considered in turn and the paths of the hunt bells
> are examined until a hunt bell is found whose path has that property. The
> principal hunts are all the hunt bells whose paths have that property,
> unless the paths of some but not all of these hunt bells are Little, when
> the principal hunts are those hunt bells whose paths are not Little.
>
> (a) Plain hunting;
>
> (b) Treble Dodging;
>
> (c) Treble Place;
>
> (d) Alliance;
>
> (e) Hybrid.
>
> Methods with two or more hunt bells are classified using the definitions and
> classifications for methods with one hunt bell but with reference to all the
> principal hunts, and with the following exception.
>
> (a) Slow Course methods are Plain methods with one principal hunt and a
> secondary hunt that has a well-formed path and makes second's place when the
> principal hunt is leading.
>
> Slow Course methods are no longer an exception.
>
> D. Nomenclature and Extensions
>
> The stage names for different numbers of changing bells are:-
> 4 Minimus, 6 Minor, 8 Major, 10 Royal, 12 Maximus, 14 Fourteen, 16 Sixteen,
> etc.
> 5 Doubles, 7 Triples, 9 Caters, 11 Cinques, 13 Sextuples, 15 Septuples, etc.
> (a) The title of a hunter shall consist of Name, Class (with the exception
> of Grandsire, Double Grandsire, Reverse Grandsire, Little Grandsire, Union,
> Double Union and Reverse Union) and Stage.
>
> Naming exceptions for Grandsire etc not noted.
>
> (b) The title of a principle shall consist of Name and Stage.
>
> (c) The title of a differential shall consist of Name, "Differential" and
> Stage.
>
> Differential is not a classification.
>
> (c)    The title of a differential hunter shall consist of Name,
> "Differential", Class and Stage.
>
> Differential is not a classification.
>
> (e) If a non-Little Plain method with double symmetry and either one plain
> hunting hunt bell or two or more principal hunts, all of which are coursing,
> has the same number of leads in the plain course as the corresponding method
> with no internal places below the hunt bell or principal hunts, they shall
> have the same name but with the prefixes "Double" and "Single" respectively.
>
> (f) Where a principle or differential has a distinct reverse, both methods
> shall have the same name but one with the prefix "Reverse".
>
> Reverse not a naming requirement?
>
> (g) A method may not be given a name if the title excluding the Stage would
> be the same as a method in a different type or class.
>
> (a) Methods at different stages in the same type and class shall only have
> the same name if they are related as in the Decision on Method Extension.
>
> (b) Methods at different stages in the same type and class that are uniquely
> related as in Parts A to D of the Decision on Method Extension shall have
> the same name, and where not uniquely related one relationship shall have
> the same name.
>
> (c) Methods in the same class that are related as in Part E of the Decision
> on Method Extension shall have the same name.
>
> The formulaic rules for extension have been removed, as naming an extension
> is left to the discretion of the band.
>
> The band that first rings a peal, complying with Parts A to D of the
> Decision on Peal Ringing, of a new method or an extent in the case of
> Doubles or Minor, or includes it in a multi-method peal complying with Parts
> A to D of the Decision on Peal Ringing, shall name the method and publish it
> in The Ringing World, subject to D.2 and D.3 above, and to the power of the
> Council to change the name or leave it unnamed if it considers it necessary.
>
> A method can only be named if it is rung in a peal.
>
>
>
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Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
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