John Chambers writes:
>Hmmm ... Y'know; that might not be too difficult. For the "x" note
>heads, it would have been nice if 'x' hadn't been already taken up as
>an invisible rest; it would have made an intuitively-correct modifier
>for this purpose. Maybe we could use '*' for this purpose, so the *e
>would be an e with an 'x' for the note head. Either clef=drum or
>clef=perc might be good ways to show the clef. I wonder how long it
>would take to hack this into your typical abc2ps formatter?
>
Or even, taking a leaf from K:HP, K:perc or K:perc(ADor). Or
whatever. A drum clef is bound to be a bit special, to say the least.
It could have its own special rules---no need to adopt _all_ the old
rules, and carry over _all_ of the old notation, unless they're needed.
Most things will carry over, but if something useful and intuitive in drum
notation conflicts with something fairly obscure in the rest of abc, it
shouldn't be too hard to decide between them. (E.g., the drum clef could
even use "x" for the note-heads and "*" for invisible rests...if they're
needed. It won't break any existing tunes, since no-one has used the drum
clef yet.)
That said, how deeply is the invisible rest embedded in abc? I had
the impression it was introduced to get around the limitations of the
guitar chord mechanism. If ever one could rationalize that...
Cheers,
John Walsh
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