>> [!...!] is peculiar to abcm2ps > It's in the new standard 1.6 >> and will completely screw up ABC2WIN (which uses ! as a line terminator). > Strikes me that it's abc2win which is up the gum tree for this one. > And I find very strange stuff in abc2win: > > a) +..+ for chords > b) the writing of grace notes as 1/16th notes rather than 1/8th as below > c) doesn't allow change of metre/key in the middle
The second has nothing to do with ABC, it's a display issue. The first is no longer an issue; ABC2WIN users stopped doing it years ago (it was in a very old ABC standard). The last is a limitation of the sort many implementations have; in this case it doesn't matter because (if it's still there) ABC2WIN can't process *any* ABC representation of the music, whatever syntax we were to choose to represent key/metre change. It isn't the syntax that's boggling the program, it's the music itself. But there are thousands of tunes out there using ! as a line terminator; like it or not, that is one feature of ABC2WIN's syntax that caught on. They matter more than any one application. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
