I don't know if anyone can help with this. I've just been asked at folkinfo about posts using them and our site and orginally thought about using the backlash (\) sequences given in the ABC draft but have found that unworkable.
I'd better explain a little how we work. Songs may be submitted to the forum by anyone using an HTML form and are then displayed in a thread. My first problem is that we need 2 backslashes to get one. Secondly HTML does not display these sequences. I don't really see this as a problem for our w: lines in an abc but it doesn't make sense where someone is posting words to be read as words - they need to be readable as HTML and in abc programs such as abm2ps. Songs then get added to the song database by one of a few admins and at times may be updated, e.g. adding some details to the notes of a song or even making a simple correction - the dissapearing backslash would be a real headache, plus the lyrics of the song still need to display as HTML. Before I made my suggestion, Dave had said he intended to use ALT-0224 style which appears to work with our abcmps/pdf output, ABCMUS and with HTML. There are doubts about how it would work with other programs or platforms. And one problem has already cropped up: To quote Dave: "Further notes on Harmony Assistant: I've written to the authors and they say it works with the Mac character set. If I save the ABC in a temporary file and open it, it gets the characters 'wrong'. However, if I open the file in Harmony Assistant via a 'Hot Key' in ABCMUS, it gets the characters right. Heaven alone knows how that works". Does the Mac bit here and a problem with Harmony mean this set probably won't work with BarFly? Jon To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
