Phil Taylor writes: | On 6 Apr 2004, at 21:10, Jack Campin wrote: | | >> Regarding lining up barlines... I had thought that spaces in | >> position 0 | >> on a line were illegal. | >> IE, the # here | >> | >> fe|d2B2 A2F2|A4 A2AB|d4 e2de|f2e2 egfe| | >> ###d2B2 A2F2|A4 A2AB|d4 e2de|f2d2 d2 :| | > | > No, they're fine by all standards since 1.5 at least - nor, as far as | > I know, has any ABC software ever had a problem with them in practice. | | Provided, that is that the line doesn't start with a field letter. A | space before a non-inline field is illegal.
Funny thing is that I've been lately working on handling ABC that does just this. One of the ongoing challenges with my Tune Finder has been handling ABC embedded inside HTML. This is not a good idea, of course, but you can't stop people from doing it. One of the frequent ways that people do this includes indenting all the ABC to match the indentation of the HTML tags. It looks fine on the screen, because HTML renderers ignore such white space. I've found one site that has all its ABC done this way. (I won't name them, to protect the guilty - and clueless. ;-) My situation right now is that there are some such tunes that my search bot can recognize, but they aren't always recognized by the code that the Finder uses to extract a tune from a page. So you can see a tune listed, and then when you try to get it, you're told that it's not there. This web stuff isn't always easy. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
