John Walsh writes: | ... And as a corollary, I hope that people writing playback | programs make it possible to reassign the letters H-Z, or at least disable | the defaults. I know Abcmus does. It's a real drag to hear emphasis | interpreted as an inverted mordent with no way of changing it.
Maybe as a reminder we should see if there's yet a concensus on just what the syntax is for defining such things. I've tried to follow a few of the discussions, but I'm pretty sure that I misunderstand most of what most of the people say. I've been considering implementing some of the ideas for some time, but since the discussions have generally degenerated to the point that I don't grok them at all, I'm pretty sure that I would just implement something entirely different that what others think is the perfect solution to all the world's ornamentation problems. At the very least, we need to way to tell novices "If you want to use the letter 'Q' to represent the 'foo' ornament, here's what you type ...." Is there a consistent way of saying this that a lot of abc tools now use? Or are they all inconsistent with each other? Can we get a list of syntaxes that different tools now implement? To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
