This ugly mess is the best I can do in BarFly to get those chords to line
up with four crotchets in another voice while retaining the semibreve:
V:1 A C4 Amy4 |
V:2 GyGy Gy2G|
and every additional voice would require quadratically more y's to sort
the misalignments out. An
Jack Campin writes:
[ the difficulties of using y to align staves ]
In theory a TeX-based system ought to obviate this kind of problem, as
TeX uses elastic boxes, ugliness scores and heuristics to optimize its
layout, and if an abc-to-TeX translator left TeX enough options that
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jack Campin wrote:
I think abc's biggest shortcomming is the fundamental of only being
able to put a chord where there is a melody-note. I consider this a
major bummer, and guess everybody (except me) writes stuff like
| A AmC4 |
Not me, I write
| C A- Cdim
I think abc's biggest shortcomming is the fundamental of only
being able to put a chord where there is a melody-note. I consider this a
major bummer, and guess everybody (except me) writes stuff like
| A AmC4 |
if your software supports non-printing rests (BarFly, Skink) you can write
|
Jack Campin wrote:
In Barfly, x doesn't print but does play, like a z. So that example
is in 5/4 with a rest and chord change on the 5th beat.
Neither does the same thing using the y non-printing non-playing space
work. Try lining it up with a parallel voice containing four crotchets
and see
