On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Phil Taylor wrote: > >That is not a good idea. Several of these letters > >(THLMPSO?) have already a predefined meaning. It would > >be better to leave these letters free.
Let me make myself more clear. I meant to say that it should be up to the end user to bind a symbol to the free letters H-Z if he so desires, and that any such binding should not be predefined let alone hardwired by the programmer of an ABC application. > Any sensible program should allow the user to define > them to mean anything the program is capable of > interpreting. Exactly. > >I think the best solution would be to use the !...! > >symbol notation to add extra symbols to the abc > >language. Something like !sharp1!, !sharp2!, !sharp3! > >etc. If the user so desires, he could bind these > >symbols to some of the free letters, via the U: > >mechanism. > > If you've been reading this list for any length of > time, you probably know what I think of the !...! > notation. If it's used without binding the meanings > to single letters it makes the abc totally > unreadable The !..! notation is only there to make the repertoire of symbols that a certain ABC application understands, accessible in a flexible and extendable way. When a user actually uses any of these symbols, he can bind them to the free letters according to a scheme that is suitable for the type of music he is transcribing. > and sensible programs don't need the exclamation > marks in symbol definitions. By now they are part of the de facto ABC standard, so we have to stick to them. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
