I asked a while ago about drum notation [...]
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
Wil Macauley wrote:
No, because application A might handle %%MIDI and ignore %%pagesize
The way I planned to handle pseudocomments was to look for
particular strings like %%MIDI and ignore anything else that
starts with % - so I wouldn't even know it was a pseudocomment
unless it was a specific
1. continued lines cannot have a trailing comment
2. pseudocomments cannot be continued
The current text of ABC 2.0 does not allow either.
Ad. 1: Comments can not be included on lines that end
with a backslash.
That would make it impossible to comment out a block of text without
editing it
John Chambers wrote:
There has been some study of this sort of problem with the
advent of computer GUIs. Any study quickly proves that most
of the users use only a tiny fraction of the GUI's
capabilities. The reason is that they don't know about the
other semi-magical things that they
Irwin Oppenheim wrote -
That's also a reasonable approach. But what do you do
with pseudo comments?
I'm not sure what you mean by pseudo comments. Could you give an example?
This example was only given to show how absurd the
semantics of the 1.6 standard were.
But the 1.6 standard doesn't
http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html#Voice%20overlay
Likewise, the operator may be used in w: lyrics and
in s: symbol lines, to provide a separate line of
lyrics and symbols to each of the overlayed voices:
g4 f4 | e6 e2 \
(d8 | c6) c2
w: ha-la-| lu-yoh \
lu- |
Bob Smithers wrote:
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jack Campin wrote:
:The paper editions of the Unix manuals used to have a keyword-in-context
:index of all the commands - usually browsing that would give me an idea.
:I presume there is an electronic copy of the same thing somewhere on all
:Unix systems.
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
I have just joined this mailinglist so I could also ask: where can I find
an archive of older threads/postings ?
Go to:
http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html
The introduction of the standard has, among other
things, a pointer to the
