Phil Taylor writes: | >One thing about macroes, however, is that you don't _have_ to use them; | >you can fully expand the macro in the source if you want to for some reason. | >Your proposal doesn't fit that need, because if I _want_ to write | >fff (for fortissimo) in the tune, I can't distinguish it from three f | >notes unless | >I have some delimiters. | | If you just want it displayed as text you can use a text annotation "^fff", but | if you want it to play as well you have to write some code to recognise it | for what it is and do the right thing, so this is not something that can be | done with a macro.
Out of curiousity: Are there any abc programs currently that will accept something like "^ff""Gm"G and do the right thing with it? I know that abc2ps won't; it simply ignores all but the first "chord" symbol. This should be fixed, of course, but today it doesn't work in Michael's abc2ps or in my (jcabc2ps) clone. Either of the quoted symbols alone work, but if you use two of them, only one appears on the page. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
