On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Jon Freeman wrote: > the dissapearing backslash would be a real headache,
You mean that you have to type \\'a to get \'a ? That would be a bug in the script that you use to process the user input. > plus the lyrics of the song still need to display as > HTML. It is quite simple to write a script that converts e.g. \'a to á in case you would like to display the ABC file as HTML. > Before I made my suggestion, Dave had said he > intended to use ALT-0224 style which appears to work > with our abcmps/pdf output, ABCMUS and with HTML. > There are doubts about how it would work with other > programs or platforms. This will only work reliably with ABC programs that have implemented the charset feature from the draft standard. Unfortunately, I don't think that this feature has been implemented so far. To make a long story short: currently the only way to go is to use \'a style accented letters and to fix your scripts so that they will deal with it correctly. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
