Just for laughs, I tried to see if I could do parallel solfa lines in BarFly using the "w:" construct, with the solfa symbols being treated as "words".
The problem with it was that in solfa, the ":", "." and "," characters are used as barlines and beat separators; they align between notes. So I tried to align them to "y" non-printing spaces. I couldn't get it to work right, but I cannot figure out if it should have worked at all, if I needed a different syntax to do it than the one I was using, or if the failure was a bug. Can it be done? (I did figure out that I needed to escape the "-" signs, used in solfa to add duration to the previous note). I haven't figured out what on earth to use for a lower-octave sign: solfa uses a sort of kerned subscripted apostrophe, easily distinguishable from the fat comma used for marking quarter- or eighth-beats. There's nothing in the standard Mac character set that looks like it so I can't even do high-bit cheating. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
