On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> | 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 |
But a midiplayer would of course not wait 17 bars...
And if I write music with multiple voices the voices aren't any
longer aligned...
So I was just talking about a feature of displaying tools, not a real
feature of ABC.
For a quick hack, for me the "^17"z8 would work, but not if I would
extract my clarinet part from a whole partitur.
I don't know how other programs than abcm2ps handle !f! symbols
(abc2ps doesn't), but abcm2ps prints the symbols above the music line,
but I would like to have it below...
Do we need a %%symbolsbelow tag here?
Viele Gruesse,
Henning Kiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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