I'm only following this discussion from a distance, but I would like to comment on the following:
On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:17, Paul Rosen wrote: > I just thought of something. Should we make the strings Unicode, or have > some mechanism for other alphabets? Perhaps that needs to be a switch > passed to the parser, or a field in the returned structure or something. *Please* go for Unicode! TMHO, it is *the* way to go when it comes to encoding plain text. For something like an international folk songbook (that could contain e.g. lyrics in latin, cyrillic *and* greek alphabet) the current standard (and applications, for that matter) fall short. > > Fingerings > > I had suggested that under the note section. I don't think ABC supports it, > but it would be nice to have. It does. In the 2.0 standard, section 4.14: +0+ - +5+ > Whenever I see these obscure cases, I want to scream, "But this is for FOLK > music!" But I try to contain myself, because the more complete we make > this, the less likely the first person who tries to use this won't be > frustrated. Ah, but some people "abuse" abc to typeset music in other genres. Atte, for has a fine collection of jazz tunes, Jef Moine is an organ player, I sometimes transcribe choral music, etc. etc. Cheers, bert -- Bert Van Vreckem <http://flanders.blackmill.net/> Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
