Alberto Duran wrote:
>This Csardas thing brings to mind a dumb question-
>How does one save an e-mailed ABC tune to be read by
>abc2win, for instance.
>I think that its basically a "cut & paste" operation
>but haven't been able to succesfully do it.
>I use Windows95. Suggestions anyone? Thanks.
>
Unfortunately the way abc2win works makes cut & paste
a bit impractical. The program's tune editor doesn't
let you edit the raw text; instead it presents a
database-style form with separate text boxes for each
of the fields. This probably makes life easier for the
beginner user, but in this case it means that you would
have to switch back and forth between your email program
and abc2win, copying and pasting each field separately.
As somebody else has pointed out, you have to save the
message to a text file and open that file in abc2win.
Here there is another problem, as abc2win assumes that
a tune starts on the first uncommented line, and ends
at the start of the next tune (or the end of the file).
(This is not what the standard says - tunes actually
start with an X: field and end on the first blank line
following the tune.)
So before opening your file in abc2win you should open
it with a text editor and remove (or comment out) all
text other than the abc, then save it with a .abc
file extension.
If I were a registered abc2win user, I'd be beating on
Jim Vint's door to ask for an update to fix this, along
with the playing at the wrong speed, and several other
problems.
Phil Taylor
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