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Laura writes:
| >>>>> "John" == John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| John> Making "^#"A work is trivial with abc2ps. You find the code that
| John> parses such quoted chord symbols, and have it ignore an initial
| John> circumflex. This is one line of C. I've done this in my abc2ps clone.
| John> Making it handle "_#"A correctly is a bit trickier, since you have to
| John> figure out how to position the "#" text string below the note.
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| I'd actually settle for the "_#" being printed above the note, but
| without the _. Which should be equally trivial; I didn't ask if it
| was hard; I asked if anyone had done it.
Yeah; that was what my first pass did. This was just to verify that
the parse was correct (and an above/below flag was set properly).
Then I worked on figuring out how to get "_foo" text positioned below
the staff. This still isn't perfect, because I don't quite grok how
the program positions things. There ain't much documentation ...
One thing I would wonder is whether "^#" or "^^" would be better. For
flats, it's more interesting, since "^b" and "_b" put the letter 'b'
on the page, and it'd be nicer to get a real flat symbol. You'd do
that presumably with "^_" and "__". Then there's the problem of
explaining this to a novice in simple words.
In any case, to abc2ps or any other formatter, the fact that we're
putting accidentals above or below the note isn't very interesting.
It's just a chunk of text, with maybe some text being replaced with a
"funny" character, an icon of some sort. So "^#" is really not
materially different from "^ff" or "^legato". But it might be nice to
recognize special strings like "_da segno" and replace "segno" with
the usual symbol.
And I'm still tempted to implement parens around accidentals. Anyone
want to be the first on their block to do this?
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