>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Frank> My main arguments for an ABC-to-ETF converter is:
Frank> c) whether we like it or not, ETF seems at the moment to be the only
Frank> open and actually functioning music notation format on a complexity
Frank> level above ABC.
If it's a complexity level above ABC, then are you sure there can be a
converter at all?
Frank> d) I believe an ABC-to-ETF converter would be far easier to
Frank> make than
Frank> any of the other converters we have been talking
Frank> about. Both are plain text formats, and most every function
Frank> in ABC has it's direct equivalent in ETF. But mind you, I
Frank> said "I believe". I have to admit I don't have nearly
Frank> enough programming knowledge to claim anything like that
Frank> for sure. If I had that, there wouldn't have been any such
Frank> discussion. I would just have done that job myself.
It doesn't take programming knowledge -- have you ever been able to
write an etf file by hand, from just the information in an ABC file?
If that can't be done, nobody can write a program to do it either.
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