On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jack Campin wrote:
> > 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: ?
>
> "A:" for "author" and ditch the present useless standard label for that field.
*not* useless. I use it.
:)
We did this one a while back, didn't we ? Yes, my usage makes it a
subfield of O:, and can't be parsed without a human brain if there is more
than one value of O:
But there it is. I saw an example, and used it in the way I thought it was
meant to be used.
etc etc.
An alternative suggestion ... use "%%" and define your own header, to mean
what you want. Give it a name specific to yourself so as not to conflict
with anything anyone else has invented :- until-or-unless there is general
agreement to use it (and, if so, on what it means).
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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