On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 14:29:38 UTC, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I. Oppenheim writes:
>|
>| And what about:
>|
>| A B C D\
>| E:|
>
>Yup. But we have had a discussion of what should decide this one:
>There is some confusion over just what is the "next line" for the
>purposes of a final \. Some abc software tries to find the next line
>"of the same type". This turns out to be hopelessly confusing, and no
>two programs do it the same.
>
>This has been hashed out in any number of programming languages, and
>the best solution is always the same: Standardize on the rule that
>the continuation is *always* the next line. Users can understand and
>use this; they can't use anything that attempts to be more clever.
[snip]
Many times, I was asked for changing the fonts in the lyrics lines.
Now, with the actual ABC syntax, the sequence:
AAAA|AAAA|
%%vocalfont Times 14
w:nor-mal\
%%vocalfont Times-Italic 14
w:i-ta-|lic_\
%%vocalfont Times 14
w:nor-mal
works fine.
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