>> Let's see; if I read this correctly, then in the line: >> >> ...|!dead!trill!beef|... >> >> the !dead! would be the decoration, and the staff break >> would come in the middle of the bar. Right? > > Good point, but generally people who are using one "system" (who > belong to the abc2win sect for ex., or in the opposite to the > abcm2ps sect) won't use the other one.
It might be useful to some to have the functionality provided by both. By far the best way to do that would be for abcm2ps to change the character(s) it uses round those !<text>! things to something else, like + or * (both of which are both legacy syntax and rarely used back when they were supported). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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