On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:08:29PM +0200, Guido Gonzato wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
> 
> > >Interestingly enough, I can't find any mention of the use of "*" for 
> > >right justified line breaking in Guido's ABC 2.0 draft.  This draft 
> > >spec tentatively calls for the use of "!" for this purpose.
> > 
> > Probably because it wasn't in 1.x...
> 
> whenever I considered adding a new feature in the draft, I turned my
> attention to stuff already implemented by important applications. Being
> '!' in abc2win, I supposed this was the way to go. It's also been added in
> abcm2ps, too, and I suppose more applications will follow suit.

So it is. At last, a chance to play with this ...

> BTW - Jean-Fran?ois, how do you tell whether '!' is a line break or the
> start of a decoration?

Odd precedences here ?

X:1
T:Test
M:3/4
K:A
AB cd ef | fe dc BA | !trill! ! AB cd ef | fe dc BA |]

is okay, but

X:1
T:Test
M:3/4
K:A
AB cd ef | fe dc BA | ! !trill! AB cd ef | fe dc BA |]

complains "Decoration not terminated" and loses the last 2 bars.
This seems rather counter-intuitive ?

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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