On Mon 12 Nov 2001 at 04:18PM +0100, Christoph Dalitz wrote: > > Before I introduce some other incompatible set of abc extensions, > I would like to ask the other devellopers whether and how > they already have addressed some of the following issues. > > 1) figured bass > > Both abctab2p2 and abcm2ps support line breaks (\n) and accidentals > (\# \b \=) in guitar chords; I have adopted the syntax of abcm2ps > in order to be compatible.
I am not sure what a line break character would mean in the context of a guitar chord. I allow ; as a shorthand for two guitar chords together e.g. "A" "Db" could be written as "A;Db" These are printed out one above the other by yaps. Is this what you mean ? > > 4) more clef types > > There are 3 different clefs (G, C and F) which can appear on different > staff lines. Which names are currently used for the various clefs > in the different abc-programs? What identifiers are used for the > french violin clef (G1) for instance? > >From memory, yaps supports clef=bass, treble, soprano, mezzosoprano, and alto. These are all names that came out of one of my music textbooks. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
