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| I'm wondering what is the status of abc's (lack of) ability to handle mor=
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| than one set of chords, alternatives printed above each other? I know tha=
| t
| yaps had a way of doing this, but is there any plans on getting it into
| the standard, and does other abc-applications support this?
Perhaps it doesn't explicitly belong in the standard, other than as a
comment saying that it's a possibility. Something that a lot of GUI
software does is understand \n inside quotes as meaning to start a
new line. That is, a chord symbol like "G\nEm" should produce a
two-line bit of text, with "G" on the first line and "Em" on the
second. All we really need is for the software to handle this
correctly.
Of course, if we really want to tweak the standard, we could also say
that something like "G""Em" does the same thing. That is, multiple
chords are explicitly allowed, and should be handled however is most
appropriate for the particular app. A music formatter should show
them both in some reasonable format.
But I think I'd personally prefer for the \n notation to "just work".
| Also how are things looking with the (lack of) ability to give you the
| triangle symbol in chords for major 7th chords, and the use of real
| accidentals instead of # and b from the chord font?
Not much action there that I've seen. Maybe we need you and a few
others to keep bringing it up until people pay attention.
I wonder if it might help if someone collected PNG or GIF images of
such musical symbols and put them on the Web somewhere?
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