Hello,
Anselm Lingnau wrote:
>
> Bryan Creer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Great idea. I might use this for cross fingering on English concertina and
> > perhaps I could adapt it to indicate forked F on the oboe.
> > I expect lots of other people could come up with ideas for how to use it for
> > their chosen instrument.
> That's right, but then when you receive an ABC file you need a way to
> figure out (...) We would
> probably need to put in a header saying
> %%fingering concertina
> or some such, and software might have the option of including the
> fingering only if it was desired. (...)
Why changing the standards for every personal need every time! there are
really good tools within the actual standards to express all those
things. Just to mention the "N:" field where one can include all kinds
of usefull and other info about the tune or the weather at transcribing
time, the "P:" field which if not used in the header for playing order
is just a string of text above a line of music, the "%" character which
excludes text from being recognized by abc-programs so again can be used
to add whatever one wants to write down.
In abc2ps a text or block of text can be added using "%%text" and
"%%begintext" plus "%%endtext".
In fact if one really needs to get all info into the printed music or
just a good looking screen display simpy use abc2ps and (and a .ps
viewer and maybe a .fmt file) or something alike.
If it is just to get the info ino the abc-file use "N:" or "P:" or "W:"
or "w:" or "Guitarchords" or simlpy "%".
I hope this was not to mercyless, I still look foreward to every usefull
addition to the standards.
Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria
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