Re: [abcusers] draft for V: retraction.....

2001-01-03 Thread John Henckel
Although what I said was valid, I want to retract my proposal to make ABC be XML compatible. One look at MusicXML (see http://www.recordare.com/stanford.html ) convinced me that using XML would sacrifice too much of the clarity and usability of ABC. for instance, this is one note in

Re: [abcusers] draft for V: retraction.....

2001-01-03 Thread Richard Robinson
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, John Henckel wrote: Although what I said was valid, I want to retract my proposal to make ABC be XML compatible. One look at MusicXML (see http://www.recordare.com/stanford.html ) convinced me that using XML would sacrifice too much of the clarity and usability of

Re: [abcusers] draft for V: retraction.....

2001-01-03 Thread Laura Conrad
"Richard" == Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard ie, if xml gives access to worthwhile stuff, how about an abc2xml Richard converter ? But as far as *I* know, it doesn't. Does anyone know differently? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ )

Re: [abcusers] draft for V: retraction.....

2001-01-03 Thread John Chambers
| Although what I said was valid, I want to retract my proposal to make ABC | be XML compatible. Rats! You beat me to it. | One look at MusicXML (see http://www.recordare.com/stanford.html ) | convinced me that using XML would sacrifice too much of the clarity and | usability of ABC. However,