Hi,
have you abc2whatever writers thought about writing compact symbols
for rests spanning multiple bars? Especially if you have multi-voice
music you come across this thing and printing 20 bars of rests is very
annoying, even with barnumbers and very ineffective in space.
I've seen rests spanning up to 10 bars using the following symbols
(10=4+4+2) and from then on the thick barline.
1 2 4 N
___________________________
_______|___|___|___________||
_____^_|_#_|_#_|__|_____|__||
_______|___|_#_|__|^^^^^|__||
_______|___|___|___________||
I could live with writing
|z8|z8|z8|...
as I use vi to write my music which has a repeat-n-times function, but
I do not like the printed music. right now I use |x8| to get an empty
bar and fill in the rest with a pencil.
There really should be a command line switch and a %%-statement like
%%combinerests or the like...
Viele Gruesse,
Henning Kiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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