>>>>> "DavBarnert" == DavBarnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DavBarnert> For me, this downloaded normally and launched BarFly,
DavBarnert> as expected. A few errors in the abc,
DavBarnert> however. Several had M: fields after the K: field, for
DavBarnert> instance,
That's not an error; in-tune M: fields have to be there. Otherwise
how could you have tunes that switch between meters? You may mean
that barfly considers it an error if there *isn't* an M: field in the
header. I had thought that the standard specifies a default for M:,
but I can't find it. Certainly abc2ps has a default.
DavBarnert> Also, there is no need to end each line with a
DavBarnert> backslash. I don't know how this looks in other
DavBarnert> software, but it makes Barfly display the whole tune
DavBarnert> as one scrunched-up line.
In abc2ps you would want to use the -c option to tell abc2ps to pick
line breaks if you were really putting them on every line. But it
does break lines that are too full even without the -c. I ended up
putting them on most lines in the Morleys, because I didn't like some
of the line breaks "abc2ps -c" was picking, but I didn't want to have
to pick them all. This is one of the major reasons I'm not using
abc2ps for production work any more.
I don't think the standard addresses the problem of whether an ABC
display program should know how to break lines.
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