Re: [abcusers] expandable information field
(I'm going to be away for a week, OS 1:5 sheet 48 302241, a mile off the nearest road with no modem). Take plenty of Jungle Formula. I hear the midgies are especially ferocious this year! Hardly saw a midge the first couple of days. Then I tried playing the flute outside at the end of the house around midnight, looking across to the lights of Iona. Within a minute or two I was in the middle of a cloud of them and had to beat it back indoors. My host suggested I should have kept playing until they were *all* gathered round and then marched off over the hill taking them with me. - 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
Re: [abcusers] expandable information field
Jack Campin writes: | Take plenty of Jungle Formula. I hear the midgies are | especially ferocious this year! | | Hardly saw a midge the first couple of days. Then I tried playing | the flute outside at the end of the house around midnight, looking | across to the lights of Iona. Within a minute or two I was in the | middle of a cloud of them and had to beat it back indoors. My host | suggested I should have kept playing until they were *all* gathered | round and then marched off over the hill taking them with me. I have an old Wizard of Id cartoon that I like to give to flutists. It has Rodney (the knight) coming up to the king and telling him that there's a fellow in the square with a flute who says he'll get rid of all the town's rats for $500. The king says to tell him that we don't have rats. Rodney says We will if he stops playing. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] expandable information field
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:46:07AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: (I'm going to be away for a week, OS 1:5 sheet 48 302241, a mile off the nearest road with no modem). Take plenty of Jungle Formula. I hear the midgies are especially ferocious this year! Hardly saw a midge the first couple of days. Then I tried playing the flute outside at the end of the house around midnight, looking across to the lights of Iona. Within a minute or two I was in the middle of a cloud of them and had to beat it back indoors. My host suggested I should have kept playing until they were *all* gathered round and then marched off over the hill taking them with me. Heh. People are always so keen to volunteer someone else for these jobs. I hope you had a good time there. I'm off next week, down to Sidmouth to play with the Scandy dancers. I know a newsgroup where it's traditional to ask people to keep the volume down while someone's away. The traditional response, of course, is for everyone else to up their posting rate by a factor of largenumber. So, have fun, don't do anything I wouldn't do chorus: bwahahaa. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] expandable information field
Jack Campin wrote: I'd like to catch the use the the Y: field for future extensions like Y:someinfofield=some info field value This way we've maintained compitiblity with existing abc files while having the possibilty of future expansion. Perhaps Phil (as the person whose program has the strangest parser) No stranger than its author:-) is probably in the best position to answer this, but it occurred to me a while ago that maybe we don't need a whole new letter for such uses. Would it be feasible to allow multi-character header fields so long as they were introduced by a leading :? X:1 T:Thingummy's Reel M:C| :DanceInstructions: RSCDS Book 137, 2042 K:A ... That only needs one-character lookahead, which I think was what Phil was concerned about? Multi-character header fields are actually no problem unless you want to change the existing field definitions. If you want something like this you could just use DanceInstructions: What bothered me about the previous suggestion was the prospect of having to deal with METRE: 4/4 KEY: C etc. BarFly just looks in the header for the stuff it needs rather than parsing the whole thing from top to bottom, so new multicharacter fields would simply be ignored at present. Multicharacter fields in the tune would be a different matter, of course. (I'm going to be away for a week, OS 1:5 sheet 48 302241, a mile off the nearest road with no modem). Take plenty of Jungle Formula. I hear the midgies are especially ferocious this year! Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] expandable information field
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:00:11AM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: Jack Campin wrote: I'd like to catch the use the the Y: field for future extensions like Y:someinfofield=some info field value This way we've maintained compitiblity with existing abc files while having the possibilty of future expansion. Perhaps Phil (as the person whose program has the strangest parser) No stranger than its author:-) Ah. Double-take. I had read that as strongest parser. What bothered me about the previous suggestion was the prospect of having to deal with METRE: 4/4 KEY: C etc. And then there's the multi-language-support issues. :-) -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] expandable information field
I'd like to catch the use the the Y: field for future extensions like Y:someinfofield=some info field value This way we've maintained compitiblity with existing abc files while having the possibilty of future expansion. Perhaps Phil (as the person whose program has the strangest parser) is probably in the best position to answer this, but it occurred to me a while ago that maybe we don't need a whole new letter for such uses. Would it be feasible to allow multi-character header fields so long as they were introduced by a leading :? X:1 T:Thingummy's Reel M:C| :DanceInstructions: RSCDS Book 137, 2042 K:A ... That only needs one-character lookahead, which I think was what Phil was concerned about? (I'm going to be away for a week, OS 1:5 sheet 48 302241, a mile off the nearest road with no modem). - 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
Re: [abcusers] expandable information field
From: Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ABC Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 12:58 AM Subject: [abcusers] expandable information field I'd like to catch the use the the Y: field for future extensions like Y:someinfofield=some info field value This way we've maintained compitiblity with existing abc files while having the possibilty of future expansion. Perhaps Phil (as the person whose program has the strangest parser) is probably in the best position to answer this, but it occurred to me a while ago that maybe we don't need a whole new letter for such uses. Would it be feasible to allow multi-character header fields so long as they were introduced by a leading :? Wouldn't that break use of existing software? X:1 T:Thingummy's Reel M:C| :DanceInstructions: RSCDS Book 137, 2042 K:A ... That only needs one-character lookahead, which I think was what Phil was concerned about? I can imagine the trouble that it will give... (I'm going to be away for a week, OS 1:5 sheet 48 302241, a mile off the nearest road with no modem). Enjoy! Arent To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] expandable information field
Jack Campin writes: | | (I'm going to be away for a week, OS 1:5 sheet 48 302241, | a mile off the nearest road with no modem). Hey, no need to rub it in! We're all choked with envy. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
