> John Chambers wrote: > ... > Would you want to use a non-printing rest in a drum part? If so, we > might want to discuss what do do with this use of 'x'. It might not > be too late to change it. I've wondered if a better solution might be > to have a general "don't print the next symbol" modifier. Some abc > programs already use [|] for a non-printing bar line. If we were to, > say, adopt 'i' (for "invisible") as a modifier, then x becomes iz and > [|] becomes i|, and we can then use x for other purposes. I can think > of a few other situations where we might like to have something in > the abc that would be played but not displayed.
very good!! > Also, I wonder about trying to do a 5-line perc staff as a single abc > voice Does this actually work reasonably well? I'd think you'd have a > lot of the same sort of problems as with keyboard music in abc. The > basic problem is that a drum kit and a keyboard both tend to have a > lot of little "voices" that appear and disappear, and abc has no > simple way to show this. How about a "inline-voice-indicator": ... B4D4 v:1 ~b2~d2 v:2 B4 v:1,2 BDBD v: BDBD ... ...start with one voice v:1 --describe the 1st "little voice" (printed with stems up) v:2 --describe the 2nd "little voice" (print aligned to v:1 with stems down) v:1,2 --write two voices in on (one note head but stem up and down) v: --back to only one voice (or v:0 if you want) > > A simple example for keyboards is a held note or chord, as [B4D4], > and while this is held, you have G2F in a subsidiary voice starting > on count 2. This is easy to draw on a staff, and easy for one hand to > play on a keyboard. But how do you write it in abc? The simplest > seems to be something like: > [V:1] ... [B4D4] ... > [V:2] ... xG2F ... > Toni To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
