"Mark F. Heiman" wrote:
>
> 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?
Definitely yes.
Frank Nordberg
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