On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> >BTW - Jean-François, how do you tell whether '!' is a line break or the
> >start of a decoration?
>
> When encountering a '!', I scan forward. If I find any of "|[:]"
> (and soon a blank or tab), or the end of line, it is a line break.
> Else, if I find a '!', it is a decoration. This means that a
> decoration name cannot contain any of these characters (for instance,
> '!da Capo!' or '![rit]!' will not work, while '!crescendo(!' is OK).
>
> Does this solve all the problems?
with ABC, we all know that 'solving' problems is impossible... you'll
always find a guy who will say, "Hey, my ABC uses XYZ so you can't do
that"... but your arrangement greatly _reduces_ the number of problems! As
usual.
I'll add this solution in abcpp and in the draft.
Ciao,
Guido =8-)
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