> > So the bottom line is: it would be nice if both "!" > > and "*" could be used to notate a staffbreak. The > > people who do not use !...! won't be bothered by it, > > and the people who use decorations will have an easier > > time. > > We're into the territory of defining new stuff here. As I said before, I > suggest it may be preferrable to invent *decoration* instead.
There is a good historical basis for precisely using "*" as a staff break operator, alongside the "!" operator. Namely, in abc2mtex it was already in use to force right-justified line breaks. It's a piece of cake to implement "*" as an alias for the "!" operator, so I don't think it's worth a long discussion. There are more important things happening in the world, even in the ABC world. Let's take a pragmatic stance. Users that don't like the "*" operator need not use it, users that like it should be able to use it. Period. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
