On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, John Chambers wrote:
> The main problem, actually, is finding and making sense of what's out
> there. So I'd encourage you to put whatever ABC files you have on the
> Web (and send me the URL). It would help a lot if the files have
> comments saying what program generated them. I often wish that ABC
> had a standard header line for this. Some programs use % lines for
> the information, but no two of them use the same format, so it's hard
> to write a pattern to match them. (ABC2Win seems to put its % id line
> outside the tune, after the blank line, so that software doesn't see
> it as part of the tune. Grumble...)
Yes ... I actually use this information :- my tunes get postscripted
(?!?) via a script which looks for such a line to tell it what program to
use, for each tune. I use a line
%%RR_DisplayVia:<progname>
which is very clumsy. My idea about inventing '%%' lines is to make sure
that I keep identifiers within a namespace that won't conflict with
anything else, unless-or-until there is an agreed standard usage. If there
was such, I'd gladly convert to it.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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