| 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.
Hmmm ... I'd think, that with suitable documentation, this is already
covered by current proposals. In particular, we have proposals to use
"^text" and !text! as musical annotations, where !foo! seems to be
restricted to common musical directives, "^foo" is any sort of text
above the staff, and "_foo" is the same text below the staff.
So I'd think you could write a repeated rest as:
| "^20"z8 | or | !17!z8 |
A few programs already implement the "^text" convention, and those
would likely produce printed output that is exactly what you want. I
doctored my clone of abc2ps (jcabc2ps) to accept this some time ago;
it was only a couple lines of code. Making an abc player handle it
would take some actual programming, I suppose, but it shouldn't be
all that difficult.
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