John Chambers wrote:
I've been seriously tempted to take what I have and try
to merge it with abcm2ps. That would probably be the most powerful
abc formatter around, at least for a few weeks.
Add some abctab2ps code too, and you'd have the ultimate abc2ps clone.
...
This is more
Phil Taylor writes:
|
| True. An additional problem is one which you yourself pointed out
| recently: users often write abc which is intended to be read only by
| human readers. In other words they are treating abc as a natural
| language. In this context any variation on abc syntax is OK as
Steve Mansfield wrote:
| Can I just sincerely apologise to everyone on the list
|
| (especially rjp, who will probably kill me at band practise tomorrow)
|
| for accidentally restarting the V: wars again?
No, we won't forgive you! It's about time that someone made this
mistake. Maybe we
John Chambers wrote:
Bryan Creer hath writ:
| I can see that we're going to end up having to write smart software
| which can figure out the right answer from anything which looks like abc.
|
| Or, alternatively, we can all work to the same standard and save ourselves a
| lot of trouble.
Fat
Phil Taylor said -
The standard is abc v1.6. There's also a proposed draft
standard which is still under discussion. Neither of them even
mentions multivoice abc. Does that mean that nobody is allowed
to post tunes which use the V: field to this group, which is
devoted to the discussion of the
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, John Chambers wrote:
Modern GUIs are very well designed, for people with three hands. The
real problem has been how slow customers have been to make necessary
hardware upgrades to meet the requirements of the software.
Quite ;-)
--
Richard Robinson
The whole plan
Phil Taylor said -
The tune will work with Muse and abcm2ps with a minimal
amount of editing (just insert a return after every V:n field).
Why should users have to do that? How are they going to know that's what
they have to do? They may not be on this list. They may never have heard of
Bryan Creer hath writ:
| I can see that we're going to end up having to write smart software
| which can figure out the right answer from anything which looks like abc.
|
| Or, alternatively, we can all work to the same standard and save ourselves a
| lot of trouble.
Fat chance. Even if we try
