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You give a method to prevent adding all the extra stuff like 1st/2nd endings, tags, codas and DS's in BIAB if I'm correct and add it afterwards with pencil. But if you wanted partly ( or all?) that stuff can be added in BIAB if you really wanted to is my impression, as long as you print it while using the "Fake sheet mode" page representation during the print process, correct?


Yes and no. The problem is when you add those things in Biab, when they print there's lots of overlaps like the 2nd ending line goes through some of the chords, the numbers and coda signs are too small, etc. And, there's no way to edit that stuff. Things like that are almost impossible for a player to read on stage. It's frustrating because PGM did a great job of creating fakebook style font for the chords themselves but then no way to create that same fakebook style of font and sizing for all the markings. If the coda sign for example is too small and is right next to a chord, you can't do anything about it. Can't move it, can't resize it, nothing.

You mentioned XML, that's what folks have been dreaming about since forever. I do not have any kind of inside information it's just my opinion and my opinion is it simply can't be done using the existing code.

Several programmers who seem to know what they're talking about have said that Biab is very old code and the only way to modernize it is with a complete rewrite which would be a huge and very expensive thing to do. I suspect that's what it would take to fix the notation which is why I said that this issue is dead to me. If PG decides to do a complete rewrite and create a whole new thing with all these enhancements including 64 bit that's fine but until then, I think it's a dead issue. If it wasn't they would have fixed it by now.

Bob

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