Re: [abcusers] Egregious example of line wrapping

[Frank Nordberg]

Jack Campin wrote:
> 
> > many people who use JC's tune finder will just want the gif or midi
> > as they wouldn't know what to do with the abc.  For such a user, an
> > automatic fixer would be an improvement even if it only worked for
> > some of the tunes.
> > Perhaps the best of all solutions would be to detect the bad tunes
> > and notify their owners so the problem can be fixed at source.
> 
> AAARGH!!!  if some piece of software out there was going to niggle me
> about every ABC tune I've been responsible for that it couldn't handle
> I'd pull the whole damn lot off the Internet.

Don't worry Jack, it ain't gonna happen.
But you've got a point. I have myself posted about a hundred piano
pieces in "BarFly ABC", simply because there's no way abc2ps can render
those pieces properly. I would just hate having my e mail inbox filled
up with "error messages".

Frank Nordberg

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