>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Frank> well, the answer to that is both yes and no. It's obviously wrong to
Frank> claim that all commercial software manufacturers think of
Frank> is profit.
The point isn't that commercial software is evil; it's that there is
such a thing as a standard that it's safe to write to, and as far as I
know etf isn't such a thing. My guess is that the definition of valid
etf is "what works in finale".
>> but as far as I know the etf format isn't guaranteed not to change.
Frank> True - just like everything else.
No, not like html 3.0. There will be an html 4.0, which will be
different, but if I say this is html 3.0, an html 3.0 parser is going
to know what to do with it. And I can write an html 3.0 parser from
publicly available documents, without buying a particular commercial
product, or booting a particular OS.
>> And I don't know what the quality of the documentation is.
Frank> Do you want me to send you a copy so you can see for yourself?
Sure. But that's not going to get anyone an etf converter. I'm
already working on abc2ly, and thinking about working on abc2mtex.
Someone who has a copy of finale installed on an os they can stand
booting is going to have to do the etf stuff.
>> I don't know on what you base that prediction.
Frank> Oh well, I can dream, can't I?
And I can have nightmares about etf format "upgrades".
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