>> lack of a way to notate non-classical key signatures. > 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.
I've asked for the latter more generally, on this list, as something all ABC implementations ought to support: it's a basic pre-requisite for starting to handle non-Western-European music, and without it ABC can't begin to do microtones in a usable way. That said, the missing feature I've most wanted in BarFly for years is the ability to define my own graphical ornament symbols (the requirement predates macros, but now we've got them each such sign could perhaps be bound to a macro). Not particularly easy because of the positioning issues and the problem of referencing the graphical elements in a portable way, and I'm well aware that Baroque ornament signs aren't something many folks want to use. Microtonal modes would be a lot simpler and have a far larger potential user base. And of course tempi in words. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
