>| >With abc2ps, you can use \ followed by a 3-digit octal value to get
>| >chars that might not be on your keyboard. The most common use I've
>| >seen of this has been \251, which is the code for the copyright
>| >symbol ('c' in a circle) in most of the ISO 8859-1 char sets.
>| Not octal surely but decimal. Trouble is, it's not campatible between
>| platforms. On a Classic Mac \251 will give you a degree symbol; you'd
>| need \169 for the copyright symbol.
> Well, I hope not. According to the "man iso_8859-1" page here:
Macs don't use ISO-8859 as their native character set and don't claim
to, so it doesn't matter what the standard says; there is nothing in
the ABC spec that gives 8859 any special status, so it's irrelevant.
(I think the Mac character set is older). The copyright sign in most
Mac fonts is hex A9, decimal 169.
The next generation of Macs will use Unicode, which I do not understand
in the least and don't intend to until I have to.
abc2ps presumably runs on EBCDIC machines too. What does \251 give you
on those?
> (And what I'd be tempted to do is implement the html symbols for such
> things, as one small step towards MusicXML.)
That sounds like a better idea, but still, if you want to make sure
the copyright info is included in the comment fields of a generated
sound file, how could you arrange it without having a special header
field? It's a nasty heuristic problem to figure out what might be
meant by a text field with an "©" somewhere in the middle of it,
where's the terminator?
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