Toby writes: | You could always use liquid paper, white-out the notes heads and redraw | them in as X's with a sharpie permanent marker.. Ha..Ha.. | | > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Christopher Myers wrote: | >> 1) Can I use an "X" for a note head?
Yeah. Actually, this subject has been mentioned before, along with the more general idea of other kinds of note heads for things like shaped-note music. It's too bad that 'x' has already been pre-empted for a kind of rest; it would be ideal for an ornament prefix saying to draw the next note head as an 'x'. This is probably the best way in general to handle such things. Maybe we could use 'X' (capital) for this ornament. The problem with this is the growing list of specialized ornaments that only work on one or two abc programs, with the same letter being used for different ornaments. We could visit the macro debate again, so that we could define a !cross-note-head! symbol and agree on a way that a user could map 'X' or 'p' or whatever to !cross-note-head!. But so far, this discussion seems to lead to an attempt to solve all the world's macro-definition problems. As a result we don't get agreement on how to define a simple text-substitution in a way that it is actually usable by a mere human. I've been tempted to do something like this in my own abc2ps clone. The main barrier so far is that I can't make any sense out of the discussion, so I don't have many clues as to what the actual syntax might be that people want. It helps if implementers can actually understand what they are expected to implement, and so far this hasn't happened with this topic. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
