On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:05:48PM -0400, Ewan A. Macpherson wrote: > On 25 Aug 2003 at 11:59, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: > > > >I find this (new to abcm2ps) business of adding in notational elements > > >not specified in the abc a bit disturbing. If a player program needs to > > >insist on "correct" notation of repeats or whatever, fine, but a > > >typesetting program shouldn't care. Any way to turn this off, Jef? > > > > I don't see what you expect... > > What I'm getting at is that I don't think an abc typesetting program > should be making "corrections" like this. There is a fairly direct > correspondance between the notational symbols in the abc file and what > shows up on the rendered page. If a user *wants* a double bar they can > write it in the abc file, and if they want something else they can > specify that, and the typesetter should typeset it as specified.
This seems to make sense. Well, to me, anyway ... couldn't these symbols just be treated literally. ie print dots where you see a ":", a normal barline where you see "|" and a thick bar line where you see "]", in any combination ? Would this cause any issues. maybe for player programs, if people started writing free-form combinations of these ? -- 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
