I've got a suggestion for an addition to the ABC specification that I hope
won't be too controversial. :]
Currently, the C: flag indicates the composer field. ABC shows its
instrumental roots in the lack of any way to specify that the words to a
song were written by someone other than the composer of the tune. Now that
ABC supports lyrics, this is a situation that's increasingly common for
notated songs.
Certainly, you can put both pieces of information in the composer field,
but that limits your flexibility in searching and displaying the data.
Of course, all the uppercase letters are in use for field flags, so I don't
know what would be best -- maybe lowercase c: ?
Is this something that seems valuable to anyone else?
Mark F. Heiman
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