On Thu 12 Oct 2000 at 07:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> 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.
To me, "\n" would imply a linefeed character to be included directly
in the PostScript - probably not what you want. The syntax recognized
by yaps and abc2midi is a semi-colon.
e.g. "G;Em"
James Allwright
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