On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:02:42PM +0000, John Chambers wrote: > Richard Robinson writes: > | On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:05:48PM -0400, Ewan A. Macpherson wrote: > | > > | > shows up on the rendered page. If a user *wants* a double bar they can > | > write it in the abc file, and if they want something else they can > | > specify that, and the typesetter should typeset it as specified. > | > | This seems to make sense. Well, to me, anyway ... couldn't these symbols > | just be treated literally. > | barline where you see "|" and a thick bar line where you see "]", in any > | combination ? Would this cause any issues. maybe for player programs, if > | people started writing free-form combinations of these ? > > ... > > One sort of suggestion I've always liked is that the double bar lines > be drawn a lot more literally. We do sometimes see abc that ends with > things like :|| and :|] rather than the :| that the 1.6 standard > mentions. I think it would be an improvement if software would draw > these quite literally, with two thin lines for :|| and a thin-thick > ending for :|]. > > Something I did with my jcabc2ps clone was to make it draw sequences > like |]| and |][| literally.
Ah, yes. I knew I'd seen something like that somewhere, it was noticing that that made me think it was a good idea, in the first place. I just didn't have time to check & pin down which one it was. Back from a long weekend away at Towersey, much catching-up to do. > The :: symbol is somewhat of a special case, since it really is a > sort of abbreviation. Ah, yes, there's always an exception. I wouldn't want to see that shorthand disappear. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
