> I just plop the characters i want in the abc file, like, for example: > z D E | G2 G G2 F | E2 E z F G | A2 G (FE) D | F2 E > w: v- o et por- que jus- ti- a t- en d'el et de-* rei- tu-ta,
> I use jcabc2ps to render the file, but any program should be able to > handle this. Are we to assume there were some non-ASCII characters in there? My mail client didn't show any, which kinda points to the problem with that... High-bit characters also map onto different things in different systems. :> To use accented letter, type the following: :> \`a => "a with grave" [...] :> \~n => "n with tilde" It would be far more partable if ABC software used HTML standards for this and deprecated TeXisms. TeX is never going to get wider use; HTML/XML/XHTML is where all the development is going on and there are far more machines out there with installed software that uses it. And it seems it's increasingly going to be built into the OS with Windows (not in itself any bad thing regardless of the sleazy politics involved). : What's wrong with simply putting the correct accent in the text? : They're all part of the extended character set, and pretty much a : standard these days. What standard? I got an emailed document from a Word for Windows user today that had a whole pile of n-tildes in it (hex 96, decimal 150). They were presumably typed by that pathetic slave of Satan with the intention that they should be some sort of punctuation or bullet character, but I've no idea what. Many editors (at least on the Mac) can translate the local character set to HTML, so there's no need ever to ship non-portable forms to other people who might have different platforms, however convenient the type-it-straight-in approach might be for you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
