On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:51:04PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: > Richard Robinson wrote: > > >Now that ! staffbreak is available in abcm2ps, it's a reasonable > >assumption that I'll start using it, because it'll do good things to > >the legibility of my source, and because I can hope that most people > >will have access to programs that'll deal with it. I'm still wary of the > >!decorations!, because I'm not sure how "portable" they are. But, at the > >moment I have "tr", "D.C.", etc, in "" guitar chords, as the only > >alternative, and that's not good either, so I may well start using > >!decorations!. In which case the 2 different ! constructions will be > >mixed together in the same line wherever they have to be. > > One thing that we have to look out for here is that abc2win not only > puts linebreaks where marked by a !, but also ignores all other > linebreaks, whether or not the line is continued. I don't know if > this is what abcm2ps does. BarFly can now (optionally) emulate > abc2win in this respect. So, I think that the rule should be that > if you use a ! to mean a linebreak anywhere you should be careful > to put ! at the end of every line where you want a linebreak as well.
Good point ... No, abcm2ps accepts a mixture of the 2. So if I make sure to write all linebreaks as !, Barfly can display them as intended, plus abc2win plus abc2mps. Okay. I daresay some'll slip through, but it makes sense. Does it "auto-detect" this, or does the user have to choose it ? (I guess the latter ? Which would make a mixture of the 2 in different tunes a bit annoying for your users). But this begins to look like something I can work with ... I just got out an update to my http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk yesterday, that may well be the last of my public abc not to use the ! staffbreak. Will BarFly accept these mixed with !decoration!s ? I guess not, if it's a abc2win-compatability thing. I'm sorry, you've probably said before, I begin to get the feeling I'm not keeping up with all of this. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
