> Just a thought - are the text spacers supposed to have any effect > on the score, or just space the abc listing?
They only affect the source - intended to aid readability by letting you align notes in the ABC without breaking beams in the staff notation. In this case they fill the gap where the gracenotes go. (There's a poem by the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan that works the same way - the text has random holes in it and there is a companion poem of verbal "Polyfilla" with the missing text in the right places to plug the blanks). I've used them in almost every tune I've transcribed since BarFly began to support them. Using ! as a staffbreak has the same motivation - it's to reconcile conflicts between source readability and staff-notation readability. I don't know what BarFly does with multivoice tunes using ! as a staffbreak, but I suspect its implementation is too simple to work, so I didn't even try with this example, though I intend to migrate all my single-line tunes into that style eventually. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
