Chris Meyers writes:
>The one thing I'm missing is putting the slashes on the stems of the
>notes. Obviously, an extension to the code is necessary, and I'm even
>willing to <gasp> step outside the bounds of the emerging abc standard
>to accomplish my goal, since my real intention is only in creating
>pretty postscript output,
>
There are two solutions here. The first is, as has been suggested, include
these as "decorations" e.g. !roll-types!; that could be added into the
standard right now. Then alias them with one of the letters H--Z for use
in the abc itself. This might be generally useful, since I gather that
these also occur as tremolo markers in string music.
A more elegant solution, which is bound to be done...manana...is
to develop an abc percussion notation, starting from the beginning. This
might be possible, because some presently-used abc notation will be freed
in a percussion clef. The problem, of course, is that it requires someone
who *really* knows about percussion to do this. Any candidates? (Vicious
circle: Drummers don't use abc because abc doesn't cater to drummers
because drummers don't use...)
Cheers,
John Walsh
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