In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, this does run contrary to the other common approach, which
might be summarized "If the ABC has even a tiny error, you should
reject it, lest people be encouraged to keep making errors."
The consequence of this is to
Laurie wrote:
I suspect that a greater problem lies in the finer detail. For instance
(not saying BF, Muse or any particular package does or does not
accept any of these things, they are just to give a feel)
snip
I think BarFly will reject all of those, except for the long title,
where it
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
Right - programs should accept the widest choice but generate standard ABC.
BUT
Think about Barfly. It doesn't generate at all.
That's true in a sense, since BarFly is a text editor, and accepts
any text you type into it and saves it without qualms.
If it accepts
For what it's worth, when I wrote Skink I decided to accept
the 1.6 standard plus W: and w: and the Barfly decorations
(T for trill, H for fermata, etc) as my first pass, and then
add V: for the second release. Why? they seemed the most
useful to me, as a user with fairly "non-esoteric" needs.
I would like to see in BarFly is a "Save as standard abc" menu
command. A text file would be saved (and displayed) that preserves
as much of the active file as possible without using any features
not found in the current standard. V: lines and whatever else
would either be stripped or
At 09:41 PM 10/15/2000 EDT, you wrote:
http://members.aol.com/LewesArmsFolk/Lewesfav.html. It appears on the abc
homepage under abc collections as "Favourite English dance tunes from the
Lewes sessions, Sussex". I'd like this to be accessible to other people's
software.
That being
...
http://members.aol.com/LewesArmsFolk/Lewesfav.html.
...
Bryan
Lewes. I do hope that you have avoided or survived the floods without
damage.
Laurie
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