>Bryan Creer writes: >| and from ABC Music Notation: History written by a certain John Chambers - >... >| There is no mention that I can find of when the !...! notation was introduced >| or when standard 1.7.6 was released as a draft but it looks as if abc2win has >| a prior claim on "!". I don't see how Jim Vint can be accused of "gratuitous >| violations" of a standard that didn't even exist. > >Anyone have dates for these?
A scan through my abc users mailbox indicates that the 1.7 standard was first discussed on this list in April 2000, and this included discussion of the !...! notation. I don't know when this was first implemented in a program though. >BTW, a year or so back, I had my tune finder's search bot count the >tunes that seemed to come from abc2win (because of the ! chars, or >because they had a "% ... abc2win" comment). It came to between 9 and >10% of the tunes. It probably is the numeric leader (since the true >leader is "tunes created using any of a zillion text editors"), but >it's not anywhere approaching a majority. It would take less work to >convert the abc2win tunes to the standard. The best way would be to >produce a new abc2win that does the conversion automatically. If it >has some useful new features (inline key changes, clefs, voices), it >could be widely adopted, and the non-conforming tunes would slowly >fade away. Anyone want the job? > >Maybe I should revive that code and do another count ... If you can figure out a way to do it, count the number of tunes which use the !...! construct too. I think you will find that those account for less than 1% of the total. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
