on 7/5/03 9:10 PM, John Walsh wrote: > Well, if " \ " is the symbol for continuation, which tells > the program "Don't feel you have to put a linebreak here," > you could have " \\ " for "and I really mean it."
I have to admit I haven't taken the time to fully understand all the ins and out of the codepages discussion but I would have thought that, harking back to the use of "\" as an escape character -- ie, that it prints reserved characters -- that "\\" would print "\" and couldn't be used as a nobreak. Do we have another collision of a character being used in multiple manners? Personally, whenever I see the "\" used as a continuation symbol (especially on tunes exchanged in listservs), the first thing I do is remove them. I hadn't tuned into "!" as a line-break so much (I will be more aware now) but likely I would do the same thing. Regarding the "*", it is a symbol that was mentioned in the 1.6 standard as forcing a right-justified line-break (albeit for MusicTeX which did not do this as the default). Perhaps, despite the widespread instances of "!" as line-breaks, it would be better to use "*" for this -- making "*" the equivalent of "!" and deprecating "!" (if you can deprecate something that wasn't in the standard to begin with) -- rather than messing with changing the !...! usage. While !...! may be less used than "!", it is already part of the standard. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
