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.

Yes, and they're also used as trill/mordent symbols in early music.




Frank Nordberg
http://www.musicaviva.com

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