On Tue 17 Jul 2001 at 08:17PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote:
>
> You could, for example, use a macro to substitute the letter Q for
> the text !invertedfermata! in the tune, and a suitable file of macros
> would allow the program to support the !symbol! format proposed in
> the draft standard. However, it's extremely clumsy, clutters up the
> abc with stuff between exclamation marks, breaks lots of tunes written
> by abc2win and is quite unnecessary, as you can already do this using
> the annotation format "^inverted fermata" if you want. Furthermore,
> enabling macros for display purposes means that ornaments will be written
> out in full if they have associated macros, which is not usually what
> you want.
>
I think there is a misunderstanding here. "^inverted fermata" will write
the text "inverted fermata" above a note. This is just a way of getting
text printed above a note. If you want to see an inverted fermata symbol,
you need something that recognizes "invertedfermata" as a macro name
and calls up the relevant symbol (the proposed behaviour of ! !).
Perhaps if you post an explanation of your alternative system, I will
see the beauty of it. My objections to having H-Z attached to fixed
symbols is two-fold :
1. It only allows us 19 different symbols.
2. A single character is much more cryptic than a name enclosed in ! !
James Allwright
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