David Barnert wrote:

>I think having abc represent
>information that is not in "the tadpoles" (except for header info
>related to the tune's provenance) is asking for trouble.

Since abc is a system for representing musical information in
human-readable ascii, there is no particular reason for it to restrict
itself to the sort of information which is commonly represented in any
other notational system.

To be sure, many people often use abc to produce tadpoles, but the language
should be driven the desire for perspicuous musical notation, rather than
by the need to serve as input for tadpoles.

Robert Bley-Vroman
Honolulu


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