Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

[John Chambers]

Wendy quipped:
| At 09:31 PM 1/5/2001 UTC, John Chambers wrote:
| >...  In a couple cases, people have scanned in music
| >so that others can transcribe it to abc.  (This isn't unusual; it has
| >been done with a lot of old documents, most notoriously with the Dead
| >Sea Scrolls.)
|
|       Really?? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls sound like in abc?? :-)
| (Sorry John, I couldn't resist!)

Hmm ...  Maybe we could find the transcriptions on the Web, stick  an
ABC header on a few passages, and see what they sound like.  It makes
as much sense as some of the numerology and hidden text  things  that
people dig out of the bible ...

Actaully, I've seen the results of taking English text  and  treating
it  as  ABC.  It happens fairly often with the ABC-in-HTML files that
some people put on their Web sites. The tune usually doesn't end with
a blank line, but rather with something like <p> or <br><br> or such.
So when someone fetches it via my tune finder, it gets fed to abc2ps,
which sees the HTML text after the tune as part of the tune.

I can't say that it produces very interesting music.

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