in addition,Chris your suggested solution would be inadvisable because it would be errror
prone:


//C //C
and //C//C
look pretty similar, but most parsers use C// as a synonym for C/4


wil

John Walsh wrote:

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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