[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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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