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Laura Conrad asks:
| >>>>> "Phil" == Phil Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| >> I usually use "#"A or "b"A to show editorial accidentals.
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| Phil> Yes. Perhaps "^#" would be better.
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| Are there any abc2ps variants that have implemented this feature?
Well, abc2ps has accepted "#"A and "b"A from the start. The stuff
inside double quotes is just text, and is placed above the note. Such
programs don't need to understand the text, and abc2ps has never
parsed chord symbols.
Making "^#"A work is trivial with abc2ps. You find the code that
parses such quoted chord symbols, and have it ignore an initial
circumflex. This is one line of C. I've done this in my abc2ps clone.
Making it handle "_#"A correctly is a bit trickier, since you have to
figure out how to position the "#" text string below the note.
The real problem with this notation is that abc2ps only allows one
such quoted string before a note. So you can't have both a chord and
an accidental, like "F#7""^#"A.
But multiple such text attachments to a note would be useful, and I've
been thinking more and more of figuring out how to implement it. For
example: "F#7""^fp""^#""<4"A"_d.C.".
(How's that for unreadable? ;-)
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