On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Phil Taylor wrote:

> >Another bug: When I clicked on close after I made some changes,
> >I got a dialog window asking me if I really wanted to close.
> >I then hit "Escape" and the program closed anyway!
>
> BarFly will do something similar - the escape key is interpreted
> as meaning "I don't care", and the window (but not the whole
> program) will close.  If you really want to change your mind
> click on the Cancel button.  Perhaps there's a different
> convention on the PC?

That could well be! On PCs the convention is that
Escape works as a shortcut for clicking Cancel, while
Enter is a shortcut for clicking OK.

> >As you see in my example, the input looks much nicer if both notes
> >and words are aligned with "|" signs. This is explicitly allowed
> >by the ABC draft standard.
>
> Presumably the bar lines are not to be drawn in the lyrics?

They are not drawn in the output; they're used to
align syllables to the corresponding measures. If there
are not as many syllables as notes in a measure, typing
a "|" automatically advances to the next bar; if there
are enough syllables the "|" is just ignored.

> >> Also because neither the program nor I knows what \-
> >> means.
> >
> >It is used to put multiple hyphenated syllables under
> >ONE note. Also part of the draft standard.
>
> OK.  I support the tilde for multiple syllables under one note, but
> I hadn't seen that.

The tilde works more or less the same way, but places a
space between the syllables instead of a hyphen.

Maybe these two issues should be clarified a little in
the upcomming standard?


 Groeten,
 Irwin Oppenheim
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