> 1/ Let's define "!break!" and "!nobreak!" as symbols > which can both be used mid-line. > 2/ Let's define "*" as an alias of the !break! symbol, > which could also be used mid-line.
No. Look at my examples again: ! as a mid-line break works way better than the more visually intrusive *. Reversing the roles would be okay; use *break* and *nobreak*, or +break+ and +nobreak+ if you really need a keyword that long. Using + where abm2ps and abcmidi currently use ! would handle legacy tunes better. There are very few tunes out there using the obsolete chord notation, and very few chords that could cause ambiguity (has anybody ever used +fff+ as a chord?). But that whole syntax, whatever its lexicon, is still a second-rate solution, rushing to implement a graphical semantics for concepts that need a musical one (the structural, control-flow terms like da capo being the worst offenders). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
