John Chambers wrote: >| On the other hand, I still think that the lack of a way to represent >| dynamics and certain other commonly-used symbols is ABC's biggest >| handicap. > >We could get into a real debate over what's the most serious handicap >in ABC. My vote would waver between the lack of endings other than >first and second, and the lack of a way to notate non-classical key >signatures. But of course I fixed those in my abc2ps clone. I'd put >dynamics right up there, though I'd lump this together with the lack >of other standard annotations.
Over the five year history of BarFly, I've had exactly one request from a user for more complex repeat structures and nobody has ever asked for global accidentals to be rolled into the key signature rather than placed on the individual notes as the program does now. At the moment they're all yelling for a fix for playing under OS X (It's Apple's OS which is buggy for once rather than my program) and they want guitar chords to play, so that's what I'm doing. The real problem with abc is that there isn't enough time in a lifetime. >I'm sure others will make other suggestions. Let's hear from the >crowds that really, really need a 4- or 6-line staff or alternate >shapes for note heads ... I can do a four-line staff with square notes... Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
