Set lines above initial in the gabc file. about gregorio HOT 6 CLOSED

The best solution is to make annotation global (and not voice_info dependant), and use it. For nabc, there is also a annotation_nabc that will most certainly appear.

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I agree that the annotation fields should be fixed.

One thing that might make things easier is a rewrite of the setannotation interface that I've been thinking about. Right now there are two different annotation boxes, one for the first and one for the second, which are filled by separate commands. My idea was to create a single annotation box to which lines could be added by successive calls of the same function. In this fashion there's less to keep track of when writing information from the gabc into the gtex.

The idea came to me some months ago while working on texrenaming in gregoriotex.tex and I think I left myself some notes there in the form of a comment labeled TODO.

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First there should be an improved annotation setting macro in TeX. See this idea from @rpspringuel

Then however that works out, the gabc should be able to set the annotation with full formatting control i.e. annotation:\color{red}\emph{H}.\color{black}II;

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Apart from the fact that \color{red}H\color{black} is anti-pattern and should be replaced by {\color{red}H}, I admit I'm not particularly keen on having too much TeX in gabc... But I also admit it's just practical, and I don't think it would be reasonable (from a development resource point of view) to have some kind of markdown parsing in the gabc headers, so I don't disagree on this.

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Just a thought about that : to help one separate style and content, I think that approach should remain optional, and, if modelineone and modelinetwo are added, mode should remain (without any effect on the final output).

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The revamp to a single annotation function that I talked about is now in #476. This should make it much easier to implement this carry-over.

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