another way to approach this is to have a special keysig or clef for drum notation - just as K:HP is supposed to draw notes in highland pipes style (all stems up, gracenotes beamed together, default gracenote have 2 flags, if I recall correctly), then something like K:drum could draw note heads as 'x'...
wil John Chambers wrote: > Toby writes: > | You could always use liquid paper, white-out the notes heads and redraw > | them in as X's with a sharpie permanent marker.. Ha..Ha.. > | > | > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Christopher Myers wrote: > | >> 1) Can I use an "X" for a note head? > > Yeah. Actually, this subject has been mentioned before, > along with the more general idea of other kinds of note > heads for things like shaped-note music. > > It's too bad that 'x' has already been pre-empted for a > kind of rest; it would be ideal for an ornament prefix > saying to draw the next note head as an 'x'. > > This is probably the best way in general to handle such > things. Maybe we could use 'X' (capital) for this ornament. > > The problem with this is the growing list of specialized > ornaments that only work on one or two abc programs, with > the same letter being used for different ornaments. > > We could visit the macro debate again, so that we could > define a !cross-note-head! symbol and agree on a way that a > user could map 'X' or 'p' or whatever to !cross-note-head!. > But so far, this discussion seems to lead to an attempt to > solve all the world's macro-definition problems. As a > result we don't get agreement on how to define a simple > text-substitution in a way that it is actually usable by a > mere human. > > I've been tempted to do something like this in my own > abc2ps clone. The main barrier so far is that I can't make > any sense out of the discussion, so I don't have many clues > as to what the actual syntax might be that people want. It > helps if implementers can actually understand what they are > expected to implement, and so far this hasn't happened with > this topic. > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
