wil writes: | another way to approach this is to have a special keysig or clef for drum notation - |just | as K:HP is supposed to draw notes in highland pipes style (all stems up, gracenotes |beamed | together, default gracenote have 2 flags, if I recall correctly), then something like | K:drum could draw note heads as 'x'...
Well, yeah, and that would make a lot of drummers happy with abc. But it probably wouldn't answer the question that started this thread. There are a lot of uses for 'x' note heads in other than drum music, and usually you want it for just a few notes. So what is needed is a way to say "draw just these few notes with 'x' heads." Both approaches would be really useful, of course. And for drums, you also want to be able to specify the number of lines on the staff, since there's a lot of 1- and 2- line drum notation. This isn't without precedent in abc; we've already seen a description of an abc program that does 4-line medieval staff notation. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
