On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 14:29:38 UTC, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I. Oppenheim writes: >| >| And what about: >| >| A B C D\ >| E:| > >Yup. But we have had a discussion of what should decide this one: >There is some confusion over just what is the "next line" for the >purposes of a final \. Some abc software tries to find the next line >"of the same type". This turns out to be hopelessly confusing, and no >two programs do it the same. > >This has been hashed out in any number of programming languages, and >the best solution is always the same: Standardize on the rule that >the continuation is *always* the next line. Users can understand and >use this; they can't use anything that attempts to be more clever. [snip]
Many times, I was asked for changing the fonts in the lyrics lines. Now, with the actual ABC syntax, the sequence: AAAA|AAAA| %%vocalfont Times 14 w:nor-mal\ %%vocalfont Times-Italic 14 w:i-ta-|lic_\ %%vocalfont Times 14 w:nor-mal works fine. -- Ken ar c'hentañ | ** Breizh ha Linux atav! ** | http://moinejf.free.fr/ Pépé Jef | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html