BarFly's macro mechanism provides part of what I need. I can define two separate macro files, each defining a "q" macro, one containing the line:
m: q con moto = [Q:1/4=120] and the other: m: q con moto = "^Con Moto" and then use the definition in a tune file like this: X:1 T:test M:C L:1/4 K:C q con moto cdec|] which when I get the program to expand macros, becomes X:1 T:test M:C L:1/4 K:C [Q:1/4=120] cdec|] for playback if I choose the first macro file or X:1 T:test M:C L:1/4 K:C "^Con Moto" cdec|] for printing if I choose the second macro file. The problems with that are: - it's a hack - there's no syntax identifying the macros as tempo constructs - I can't put the required macros at the top of the file (I don't understand this, it works for other macros as in Phil's Goldberg Variations example) - they have to be in a separate file - there's nothing like a #include construct to link a file to the macros it needs - the linkage has to be done through application preferences - I can only use this in tune bodies since macros don't work in headers (not much of a problem for me, maybe would be for other people) - it would be much nicer if BarFly never printed numerical tempi in the first place; that way I could get away with just one macro file - I'd hate to ask anybody else to do it. But I'd *much* rather insist on people going through those hoops, and additionally restrict them to using software that can handle Barfly- style macros, than hardwire my interpretive guesses till the end of time. So, in the absence of any discernible progress, I think I'll just start doing it, and put a pair of suitable macro files on my website that you will have to use to make sense of anything I upload from now on. Note, this mechanism subsumes the suggestions made for constructs that would put the tempo indication in a distinctive typeface, because the quoted-string mechanisms of programs that allow multiple typefaces can be invoked by whatever I put on the RHS of a macro definition. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
