Hi all,
I'm going to touch a subject that I know some of you have strong feelings
against. The most apparent difference between abc2ps and abcm2ps is the
looks of bar lines: the latter has tall bar lines that cross the vocal part.
IIRC, John set out to write jabcm2ps because he couldn't stand those tall
bar lines...
However, there are points to support those. I found countless scores of
organ and choral music that have tall bar lines, and I asked a professional
musician the reason for this. His answer somewhat confused me, but it ran
like, "in organ scores that's the best thing to do".
On a personal note, a few singers of my choir and I find scores with tall
bar lines easier to read.
So my question is:
John, could you add an option to jabcm2ps to toggle tall bar lines on/off?
Jean François, would you do the same?
While I'm at it, I may just as well ask for more. Imagine a scheme like
this: a SATB choral part and a piano/organ accompaniment. The SATB staves
could be linked by tall bar lines, but not the piano part. So, something
like:
%%staves [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 5 6 ]
would do exactly what I saw yesterday in an Italian edition of Vivaldi's
Magnificat.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Guido =8-)
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