>>>>> "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
James> My objection to this is that "vi -" should mean the same as
James> "vi-". This is the way I would naturally read what you
James> have written (rather than assuming the "-" is a syllable on
James> its own).
I understand this point of view, but changing abc2ps to adopt it would
break a lot of my stuff. I don't mind if the person who changes it
also changes the abc2ps output so that there is a good solution to the
general melisma problem, even if it isn't one of the solutions I'm
currently using. But certainly I would be very annoyed if the change
meant that
w:vi - _
suddenly looked as bad as
w:vi- _
currently does.
I looked at the standard, and as we've noted before, it is fairly
precise about what each individual punctuation mark means in
isolation, but does not address the issue of what they mean in
combination. So I claim that the standard does not state that "vi-"
means the same as "vi -", and it isn't necessarily a bug in abc2ps
that it prints them differently.
To refresh people's memories, here's the section from the
abc-draft.txt:
$ Within the lyrics, the following words should be separated by one or more
$ blank spaces and to correctly align them the following symbols may be used:
$
$ - break between syllables within a word
$ | advance to next bar
$ _ (underscore) last syllable is to be held for an extra note
$ * one note is skipped (i.e. * is equivalent to a blank syllable)
$ ~ appears as a space but connects syllables each side into one
$ \- appears as - sign in output.
$ \ continuation character; next w: field is part of the same line
$
$ Some examples:
$ w: syll-a-ble is aligned with three notes
$ w: time__ is aligned with three notes
$ w: of~the~day is treated as one syllable (i.e. aligned with one note)
$ but appears as three separate words
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