Jack Campin suggests:
| > 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.
|
| "A:" for "author" and ditch the present useless standard label for that field.
I'll second that. I've had numerous uses for this, and "A" sure looks
like the obvious choice. I wonder how many files use the current A
header line? I don't recall ever seeing it outside the examples, but
I haven't been looking for it, either.
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