RE: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

[Sven Axelsson]

> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:address@hidden 
> 
> Sven Axelsson wrote:
> >>From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:address@hidden 
> >>
> >>I think the proper thing is to add a note to the PDF docs 
> that people 
> >>should not expect cutting & pasting from the PDF to work. 
> PDF is made 
> >>for getting accurate printout, not for transporting ascii text.
> > 
> > 
> > While I agree with that in general, I think that examples 
> marked as such
> > only should use the actual characters that they are coded with. For 
> > example, a book on C programming should not use curly quotes around 
> > strings in code examples. And, yes, I know there are books 
> that do so.
> 
> This is out of our control. The fonts that TeX uses might put 
> quotes in an entirely different place than what is customary.

Not totally out of control. Use a latin1-encoded font for the 
normal text and make sure TeX doesn't do special substitution of
single quotes and double dashes in the examples.

But maybe that is too much work.

-- 
Sven Axelsson