Henning Kiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecrivit:
| On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > | "^20"z8 | or | !17!z8 |
|
| But a midiplayer would of course not wait 17 bars...
Well, if it were combining multiple voices, I'd hope it would. But
when playing just the one part, it could be rather boring. I wonder
what MIDI users would like in this case?
| And if I write music with multiple voices the voices aren't any
| longer aligned...
Yeah; it looks like a formatter would need to understand the notation
in this case. In the few cases where I've done multi-voice abc, I've
wanted the explicit empty bars in the abc to preserve alignment, but
it easy to see how someone might not like this.
| 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.
The traditional staff notation also qualifies as a "hack" in this
case, but it's a very useful one, at least for saving trees. I'd like
to see this sort of thing included in the list of abc annotations on
some approved list. The !...! notation might be better here, since
that seems to be what people like for official musical directives
such as !crescendo! and !da Capo! and so on. These are all special
cases. in this case, !23!z could be recognized as meaning "23 bars of
rest", and a length on the z would be unnecessary. Similarly, it's
common in standard staff notation to use a whole rest in such
measures regardless of the actual time signature.
| 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?
The favored notation seems to be "_text", where the '_' indicates
that this is annotation that is to go below the staff. One of the
things on my to-do list for my doctored abc2ps is to figure out how
to get the text positioned correctly below the staff. I don't yet
know enough postscript to get this right. Getting things printed so
they don't overlap in an unreadable fashion is a bit tricky ...
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