John Chambers a skrivas:
> It might be useful to use this to see if anyone is interested in a
> more general discussion of the topic of such formatting directives.
> One thing that has occurred to me is that there's one little thing
> "wrong" with how abc2ps do this. It has generally be suggested that
> the %%-style directives start with a keyword that identifies the sort
> of program that handles the directive. In the case of abc2ps's
> formatting directives, it doesn't do this. Some other programs have
> used this approach, as you can see from all the abc files that have
> %%MIDI directives. But the abc2ps %% formatting lines aren't labelled
> as such, and are just a jumble of keywords that have no apparent
> relation to each other.
>
> It seems to me that it might be a good idea if the various clones of
> abc2ps were modified so that their formatting directives start with
> %%fmt, where the case is probably not significant. This would make it
> obvious that 1) these are dealing with formatting, and 2) they are
> related to the things that can go in .fmt files. Also, this would
> eliminate the possibility of collision with someone else's %% lines.
[snip]
OK, I added it in the latest abcm2ps release, but, as I remember, there
was no reply to the mail from M. Methfessel in Nov 1999:
Michael Methfessel wrote:
> John Chambers wrote:
>> Similarly, Michael Methfessel introduced a bunch of very reasonable
>> page format directives in abc2ps. He didn't use %%abc2ps, but rather
>> used lines like %%pageheight and %%leftmargin. This seems to me a
>> clear invitation to everyone else to use the same directives.
>
> That is exactly how it was intended. The idea was that the abc code
> contains only the musical information, and %%-lines control how a program
> interprets it. Thus John's suggestion to put the instructions on how to
> play the parts sequence into %%-directives seems reasonable to me.
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