Phil Taylor writes: | John Chambers wrote: | | >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. | | It works in BarFly, as long as you don't put the two strings on top of | each other (i.e. use the global option to put the guitar chords below | the staff in this case).
Oh, yeah; my abc2ps clone handles that case, too. I guess I should have thought to distinguish them. (And then my message would have been even wordier ;-). There's also the case of several chords (as in "G""Em"B) with the intent that they be displayed one above the other. This is fairly common practice for alternate chords, and people have asked whether any abc software accepts it. There seems to be no obvious reason not to use it in abc, at least if you're emailing a tune to a friend who reads abc. But if software discards one of the chords, it does sorta put a damper on the practice. I've gotta spend a bit more time studying how abc2ps positions things so that I can get things like this to work right. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
