On Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:29 PM, Frank Nordberg
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> I am very interested. Is it possible to get this a bit more standardized
> I mean things like:
> "_" - Move the text down some
> could mean anything. To BarFly it means "place the text below the
> staff", while jaabc2ps apparently interprets it as "move the text a
> little closer to the staff".
"Move the text down some" applies when this is NOT the first character of
the text. The first text characters are implemented exactly as described
in the draft (1.7.3) standard. I thought I was pretty clear on that but I
guess not. Here's an example:
"^_Text" would place the text above the staff but a little lower than the
default location (how much is up to the software, in jaabc2ps it's
controlled by a *.fmt (or %%) parameter.
"_^<Text" would place the text below the staff but a little higher and to
the left of the "normal" location.
"<^^Text" would place the text to the left of the notehead and a "couple of
bits" higher than "normal."
And so on. Obviously, if you use this feature in your abc then software
which doesn't recognize the extra formatting characters is going to print
some extra characters with the text ("_Text," "^<Text," and "^^Text" in the
above examples). That's preferable to "breaking" software that doesn't
recognize the additional formatting characters. Also, any midi player
software that uses the 1.7.3-described leading characters to distinguish
simple text from chords will ignore all of this just as it should.
John Atchley
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