Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

[Robert Bley-Vroman]

I wrote:

>
>    Robert> (I've used "f#" rather than "^f".)

Laura Conrad wrote:

>
>We've discussed this many times before.  The advantage of F# is that
>it looks more like the printed music than ^F.  The disadvantage is
>that there isn't a corresponding character for natural.  And the ascii
># character is pretty close to a typeset sharp, but the ascii lower
>case b isn't really, although it's better than anything we have for
>natural.

Actually, we can't use ^f if we enclose it in quotation marks and use it as
a single bass note (as in my Dashing White Sergeant example), since "^f"
will be interpreted as a text notation to be placed above the staff.

Robert


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