Re: Re: [abcusers] Question on 'invisible' rests and chord symbols

2002-05-14 Thread ANewman110
Right, I will probably do it the way Barfly does it (using the V: field. I don't have a Mac so I can't run Barfly but I'll take your word for it ;-) It also won't be too hard to implement in the GUI, allowing you to combine voices from a list. I already support chord symbols directly before

Re: [abcusers] Question on 'invisible' rests and chord symbols

2002-05-14 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Phil Taylor wrote: Atte Andre Jensen wrote: Which? [other ways than abcm2ps' to merge voices...] In BarFly, you put the word merge (without the quotes) in a V: field in the header to have this voice drawn on the same staff as the previous one. You can also control the

Re: [abcusers] Question on 'invisible' rests and chord symbols

2002-05-13 Thread ANewman110
Thanks, that's useful nformation. I had hoped (and still hope) to avoid the slippery slope of supporting %% directives. I realize I will be in for it when I start doing midi stuff...for the combining of voices into a staff, though, it looks like there are other ways of handling it. Plus I think

[abcusers] Question on 'invisible' rests and chord symbols

2002-05-12 Thread ANewman110
I just looked at the online jazz song book (http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/songbook/) and I was curious about how one of the fields was to be interpreted. The abc file has: v:chords Am x4 GMaj x4| ... v:melody abcd defg|... And then at some point the chords and the melody are 'combined'. Is it

Re: [abcusers] Question on 'invisible' rests and chord symbols

2002-05-12 Thread Phil Taylor
I just looked at the online jazz song book (http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/songbook/) and I was curious about how one of the fields was to be interpreted. The abc file has: v:chords Am x4 GMaj x4| ... v:melody abcd defg|... And then at some point the chords and the melody are 'combined'. Is it

Re: [abcusers] Question on 'invisible' rests and chord symbols

2002-05-12 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Sun, 12 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked at the online jazz song book (http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/songbook/) and I was curious about how one of the fields was to be interpreted. The abc file has: v:chords Am x4 GMaj x4| ... v:melody abcd defg|... You mean V: And then