On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Jack Campin wrote: > >> There are lots of abc2win files on the net which > >> use the exclamation mark for a different purpose > > Can you be specific there? As a developer I'd like to know! > > It's a line terminator.
The BNF standard http://www.norbeck.nu/abc/abcbnfx.htm explicitly allows both the !...! and the !-newline notation. There's no reason why these two notations couldn't go together. I argued already in another e-mail why ABC software should NOT assume that a bare newline indicates the end of a music line. The software should do the line formatting itself, and if the user should wish to override the default behaviour, he could use the !-newline notation to force a linebreak. In other e-mails I argued why the !...! symbol notation is a good thing. To sum up: Both usages of the !-sign should be included in the upcomming standard. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
