Laura Conrad wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Frank> Wil Macaulay wrote:
> >>
>
> >> Lets have a little reality check here, and ask ourselves a
> >> couple of simple questions: Why are there almost twenty
> >> thousand tunes freely available in abc format on the internet,
> >> more than two orders of magnitude more than any other format?
>
> Frank> You're underestimating both ABC and "other formats" here.
> Frank> Musica Viva alone has 2192 tunes in GIF format - 313 of
> Frank> them are also in PDF format and 1239 of them in ABC format.
>
> I think Wil was talking about formats in which music *information* is
> available, not formats which graphically display information. All the
> stuff in GIF or PDF on Musica Viva comes from music information which
> has been entered in some other format, such as ABC or finale.
That's true of course, but I hardly think the end user would consider
that important.
Besides, if we define "internet music notation format" as a file format
that is:
-specially made for music notation
-cross-platform compatible
-useable even for people who aren't computer experts
-readable with free and widely available software
we end up with ABC not as the most popular format, but as the *only* format.
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