> I've noticed a problem recently with Henrik Norbeck's tune collection. > He has a habit of marking out sections of a tune with a text header > written in quotes on a line by itself like this: > > X:106 > T:Lark on the Strand, The > R:jig > H:See also "The Stolen Purse", #205 > D:Chieftains 1 > D:Paddy Keenan > Z:id:hn-jig-106 > M:6/8 > K:G > ABG AGA|BGE ~G3|ABA GBd|egd edB|ABG AGA|BGE ~G3|GBA G2B|dBG BdB:| > |:GBd ~g3|gba ~g3|GBd ~g3|egd edB|GBd ~g3|gba ~g3|abg age|egd edB:| > "Variations:" > |:~A3 AGA|AGE GDG|ABA GBd|edg edB|~A3 AGA|AGE G2B|dBA G2B|dBG B/c/dB:| > |:GBd ~g3|gba g2G|GBd g2d|e2d edB|GBd ~g3|gba ~g3|~a3 agb|1 age dBA:|2 age dBG||
This looks like the "labelled bar line" syntax that some abc programs (including abc2ps) accept. But the quoted bar label should be immediately before the bar line. I think abc2ps requires that you use a backslash if you want to have a line feed after the quoted string, so it should be written: "Variations:"\ |:~A3 AGA|AGE GDG|ABA GBd|edg edB|~A3 AGA|AGE G2B|dBA G2B|dBG B/c/dB:| This effectively puts the quoted string immediately before the bar line. Maybe you could add a kludge to pretend there's a backslash after such quoted strings when they come at the end of a line. I oughta check and see if abc2ps accepts this. I'll bet it doesn't, but I could be wrong. If I remember right, Henrik did at least some of his tunes using abc2win, which ignores line feeds and has its own nonstandard way of indicating end-of-staff. That could be what's going on here. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
