Re: [abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #364

2000-10-13 Thread Richard Robinson
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jack Campin wrote: We already have several header fields like this, all of them wildly ambiguous and interpreted in every possible way by some transcriber somewhere. What do you want your new field to do, exactly? What *kind* of class? - I can think of class divisions

Re: [abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #364

2000-10-12 Thread Jack Campin
Incidentally, I would like to see a 'class' code, that would include one or more characters, each of which would represent a class of music to which the tune belongs. Then, if there is a large archive of tunes, you can pipe it through a filter to extract all those in the archive that belong to

[abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #364

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Lane-Smith
At 09:26 AM 10/11/00 -0700, Bryan wrote: One final point I have to make. I am worried by phrases like "if we permit" and "should force people" and comparisons with speeding laws (For goodness sake! Nobody's going to die here.) Are WE (who like it the way it is) becoming WE (who must be