Phil Taylor wrote about pasting tunes into ABC2Win. His message is quoted below. Here's the author's response: ABC2Win supports paste for one or more tunes. If an email contains a T: or X: followed by a proper tune or several tunes, the user should copy the lines from X: to the blank line at the end of the last tune, open ABC2Win and paste the tune(s). ABC2Win will parse the tunes and add each of them to the current, open file. If the user does not copy extra text before or after the tune, everything should work as described above. Phil is correct that abc2win can become confused if there is text before or after the tune that is pasted. The same is not true if the extra text is in a tune file; in that case the text is identified and separately noted when the file is opened and the tunes are listed. Phil is not correct about the need to paste a tune by small pieces. I'm not sure what case Phil is describing when he says that ABC2Win assumes that the text starts on the first uncommented line. In my recollection, the program uses X: as a tune start signal and a blank line as an indicator that the tune ends. Perhaps the information above explains why users of ABC2Win are not beating at my door for updates to the handling of pasted tunes. And as for updates, a preview of a minor update has been available since last summer. It is fully functional but I have not had a chance to convert it into full release. See www.abc2win.com/preview.html for a detailed explanation of the changes and to download. Jim Vint Phil Taylor wrote: > 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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
