Error with redefinable symbol

[sbeitzel]

The ABC standard suggests that one ought to be able to redefine a symbol to include an annotation. However, abcm2ps seems to treat any such definition as needing to be a decoration string. For example, the following ABC file:

%abc-2.1 %%straightflags false %%flatbeams true %%graceslurs false %%titleformat T0, R-1 C1 X: 1 T: Moonstar (SNARE) C: arr. by Gloria Pellegrin M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: none stafflines=1 V: S stem=down gstem=up dyn=up clef=none snm="S" U: R = /// U: r = // U: v = "^V" V:S {A}c>A r(cA) {A}cvrc

produces this error output:
abcm2ps-8.13.17 (2017-11-21) File moonstar_snare.abc moonstar_snare.abc:17:19: error: Decoration !"^V"! not defined

Whereas, if the line is changed to:
{A}c>A r(cA) {A}c"^V"rc
then the output looks the way one expects, with a 'V' appearing above the last note.

[moinejf]

abcm2ps does not implement all of the ABC standard. The differences are described in the document: http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-doc/features.xhtml.

[sbeitzel]

Fair enough.