>>>>> "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 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.
>>
James> My argument is really about a common sense interpretation of the
James> meaning rather than a precise reading of the draft standard (where
James> the wording has come from the abc2ps documentation).
I agree that a draft standard should be considered in the light of
common sense rather than in Biblical terms. But this one has been a
draft for a long time, and there's starting to be a lot of ABC out
there that would have to be changed if it changes. So I wouldn't want
to change this abc2ps behavior lightly, even if I disagreed with it
more seriously than I do.
James> Consider
James> w: happ-il-y
James> w: happ - il - y
James> I would like both to be treated as one word with 3 syllables and
James> have written my parser to achieve this.
Yes, this is the problem -- I always have to ignore your error
messages, because I write my ABC so that the output looks right to
abc2ps. Maybe the answer is for YAPS to mature so that I can switch
to using the same parser for both printing and playback.
James> As regards your particular problem with "xx - _", perhaps it is
James> time to write some gawk scripts to change - to \- or hack abc2ps
James> to give you nicer output, or maybe both.
The script I could write, but right now "xx - _" looks better in
abc2ps than "xx \- _".
The abc2ps hack I could probably manage, but getting back into C
coding would take more time than I have in the next two weeks. (At
which point I'm going to a workshop, where I expect to show people
lots of printouts of the music I've been publishing.) In fact, I'd
really rather publish music than write music publishing software, so I
was really hoping someone else would start hacking abc2ps, using my
bug reports as input into what to do, of course.
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