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Betza notation (extended). The powerful XBetza extension to Betza's funny notation.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Mar 15 04:21 AM UTC in reply to Bn Em from Thu Mar 14 11:52 PM:

you'd (apparently) lean toward using ß for Sexton, while I'd use it for Switchback

We're technically not contradicting each other; I was using capital ⟨⟩, as is usual for atoms, whereas Switchback, whilst really something that XBetza would tend to spell out explicitly, is definitely small ⟨ß⟩ material

That depends; the Windows-1252 character set that I'm suggesting to use as the basis (because even a system without Unicode installed should have at least that much) only has ß. That, I believe is the lower-case letter -- which would rather spoil my use.

By the way, the full XBetza for the Switchback would be afq(afzafq)K(afqafz)K, which I think would be quite rarely used and only needed to be "atomized" for a rifle capture, bent slider, or something similarly strange. So not having it wouldn't necessarily be a big loss, and one of the other letters in the set (like maybe Ï? Or Ş, if all of Unicode is opened up) could still work if I really want it.