Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-15 Thread jc
Eric Galluzzo writes: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > ... The !...! notation might be better here, since | > that seems to be what people like for official musical directives | > such as !crescendo! and !da Capo! and so on. These are all special | > cases. in this case, !23!z could be recog

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Eric Galluzzo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | So I was just talking about a feature of displaying tools, not a real > | feature of ABC. > | For a quick hack, for me the "^17"z8 would work, but not if I would > | extract my clarinet part from a whole partitur. > > The traditional staff notation also qualifies as

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Henning Kiel
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Henning Kiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecrivit: > | On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | >| "^20"z8 | or | !17!z8 | > | > | But a midiplayer would of course not wait 17 bars... > > Well, if it were combining multiple voices, I'd hope i

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread jc
Henning Kiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecrivit: | On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | >| "^20"z8 | or | !17!z8 | | | But a midiplayer would of course not wait 17 bars... Well, if it were combining multiple voices, I'd hope it would. But when playing just the one part, it could be

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread John Atchley
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Henning Kiel wrote: > I don't know how other programs than abcm2ps handle !f! symbols > (abc2ps doesn't), but abcm2ps prints the symbols above the music line, > but I would like to have it below... > Do we need a %%symbolsbelow tag here? In jaabc2ps I used two switches for ea

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Anselm Lingnau
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In particular, we have proposals to use "^text" and !text! as > musical annotations, where !foo! seems to be restricted to common > musical directives, "^foo" is any sort of text above the staff, and > "_foo" is the same text below th

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Henning Kiel
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | have you abc2whatever writers thought about writing compact symbols > | for rests spanning multiple bars? Especially if you have multi-voice > | music you come across this thing and printing 20 bars of rests is very > | annoying, even with barnumb

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread jc
| have you abc2whatever writers thought about writing compact symbols | for rests spanning multiple bars? Especially if you have multi-voice | music you come across this thing and printing 20 bars of rests is very | annoying, even with barnumbers and very ineffective in space. Hmmm ... I'd think

[abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Henning Kiel
Hi, have you abc2whatever writers thought about writing compact symbols for rests spanning multiple bars? Especially if you have multi-voice music you come across this thing and printing 20 bars of rests is very annoying, even with barnumbers and very ineffective in space. I've seen rests spann