Dear abcusers,
thanks for all the mails regarding H instead of B. I guess the suggestion
has been rejected 8-(
I'll try another one.
In the abc standard currently being discussed w: allows lines of lyrics
aligned with the notes, and programs like abcm2ps or abctab2ps already
understand this. '-' indicates a break between syllables within a word and
'_' indicates that a syllable goes over an additional note indicated by a
horizontal line. Thus
w: syll-a-ble
w: time__
both go over three notes. Naturally, I used combinations like
w: sum__-mer day_.
which was meant to indicate that 'sum' goes over three, 'mer' over one and
'day' over two notes. The period should not go over an extra note, of
course, but should be added after the line indicating the extension of day
over the next note.
However, abcm2ps and abctab2ps both treated the '-' and the '.' in
'sum__-mer day_.' as separate syllables so that 'sum__-mer day_.' overall
goes over 8 instead of 6 notes. (abc2mtex apparently doesn't accept w:
yet)
My suggestion is to add the example
w: sum__-mer day_.
(or a similar one) to the abc standard and indicate that it should be
interpreted as indicated above, going over 6 notes altogether sum (3) mer
(1) day (2) .(0, at the end of the horizontal line)
What do you think?
Best regards, Laurenz.
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