In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> I just plop the characters i want in the abc file, like, for example: > >> z D E | G2 G G2 F | E2 E z F G | A2 G (FE) D | F2 E >> w: v- o et por- que jus- ti- a t- en d'el et de-* rei- tu-ta, > >> I use jcabc2ps to render the file, but any program should be able to >> handle this. > >Are we to assume there were some non-ASCII characters in there? My mail >client didn't show any, which kinda points to the problem with that... > >High-bit characters also map onto different things in different systems. > > >:> To use accented letter, type the following: >:> \`a => "a with grave" [...] >:> \~n => "n with tilde" > >It would be far more partable if ABC software used HTML standards >for this and deprecated TeXisms. TeX is never going to get wider >use; HTML/XML/XHTML is where all the development is going on and >there are far more machines out there with installed software that >uses it. And it seems it's increasingly going to be built into >the OS with Windows (not in itself any bad thing regardless of the >sleazy politics involved).
Well I can go with that if we must have an alternative. > > >: What's wrong with simply putting the correct accent in the text? >: They're all part of the extended character set, and pretty much a >: standard these days. > >What standard? I got an emailed document from a Word for Windows >user today that had a whole pile of n-tildes in it (hex 96, decimal >150). They were presumably typed by that pathetic slave of Satan >with the intention that they should be some sort of punctuation or >bullet character, but I've no idea what. In that case your user probably used a font which is not in your system, or a version of word later than yours. > >Many editors (at least on the Mac) can translate the local character >set to HTML, so there's no need ever to ship non-portable forms to >other people who might have different platforms, however convenient >the type-it-straight-in approach might be for you. But this avoids the question of what *is* the character set? For the Americans � (pound!) and Euro are extended characters yet of course for a European accented characters of all sorts are right there on the keyboard and are typed into the document! To make a Frenchman type \'a when it's a key on the keyboard is pretty strange, if not insulting! ... and what's the \?? code for � anyway ....? Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
