Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-25 Thread Laurie Griffiths
For what it's worth, Muse is quite happy with X:0100ABCD Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] and probably all the other variant X: lines - Original Message - Richard Robinson wrote that On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, John Chambers wrote that Richard Robinson wrote: I wonder whether

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-25 Thread John Chambers
Laurie Griffiths wrote: | For what it's worth, Muse is quite happy with | X:0100ABCD Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... | Richard Robinson wrote that | Not exhaustive, but ... I have here, and use, abc2ps, abcm2ps, abc2mtex | and yaps. These will all cope OK with an X: line of | |

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-25 Thread Richard Robinson
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, John Chambers wrote: | | X:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... | abc2ps complains, but that's all. They all rip the file ok. | | But I bet there are other programs that won't ... ? Probably, but rejecting such a tune isn't reasonable, and should be fixed. Giving a warning is

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread Richard Robinson
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Jack Campin wrote: I have been looking round other people's transcriptions on the net over the last few days and I'm getting reminded of a few missing features of ABC that would make web-trawls for music more productive. - universal identifiers, along the lines of the

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson wrote: | I wonder whether the X: line used for this, since I'm not sure what other | use there is for it. Does any software currently use the X: line for | anything (other than the ease-of-parsing start-of-tune marker) ? I think | it was supposed to be a way of giving a

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson wrote: | I wonder whether the X: line used for this, since I'm not sure what other | use there is for it. Does any software currently use the X: line for | anything (other than the ease-of-parsing start-of-tune marker) ? I think | it was supposed to be a way of giving a

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread James Allwright
On Thu 23 Aug 2001 at 12:43PM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Jack Campin wrote: I have been looking round other people's transcriptions on the net over the last few days and I'm getting reminded of a few missing features of ABC that would make web-trawls for music

[abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-17 Thread Jack Campin
I have been looking round other people's transcriptions on the net over the last few days and I'm getting reminded of a few missing features of ABC that would make web-trawls for music more productive. - universal identifiers, along the lines of the Message-IDs used with email and Usenet