> If solfa can't be conveyed in ASCII what use is it?
Well, it can *roughly* be conveyed in ASCII, but you'd want to get it
looking better than that for publication-quality. After all, you can
do staff notation in typewriter art if you want.
The main use is that lots of people know how to read it. Its main semantic
advantage over ABC is that it's independent of absolute pitch, which is
exploited by an associated culture that uses it for sight-singing; nobody
trains singers to use ABC in that way.
It also has a better way of representing duration; I try to use a similar
scheme when writing ABC, by adding spacing. An example of something solfa
can do that ABC can't: take a waltz tune with a trochaic metre and put a
chord over beat 2 (see the Jimmy Shand Book of Waltzes for examples of
this). In ABC there is no way to write that, chords have to synchronize
with the start of a note.
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