Steve Mansfield wrote: >Atte Andr� Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >>On Friday 15 June 2001 11:20, Phil Taylor wrote: >> >>> I could equally claim that BarFly is the de facto standard on the grounds >>> that it runs on the platform which is the de facto standard for music >>> production >> >>I didn't know BarFly ran on Linux :-) > >For a mailing list supposedly dedicated to a cross-platform ASCII >notation system, we sure seem to spend a lot of time rehashing the 'My >OS is better than your OS' stuff. It's certainly one of the more futile (if enjoyable) topics for argument. Actually, we don't do too badly compared with some of the newsgroups that I read. >I too am disturbed by the historical revisionism shown in some quarters >to the contribution of abc2Win to the general adoption of abc. Yeah it >doesn't 100% adhere to the 1.6 specification and nothing but the 1.6 >specification - but I can think of other abc programmes, on or >compilable on a variety of OS, you could justifiably level that >accusation at .... Credit where credit is due - abc2win did make abc available to a huge number of people who simply couldn't have coped with abc2mtex. And, I would be surprised if _any_ of the existing programs can claim 100% adherence to the abc 1.6 standard. BarFly doesn't. (Doesn't recognise section headers, Won't put linebreaks except on a bar line.) >But at the end of the day if your OS of choice supports the creation of >ASCII characters in a file you've got all the tools you need to generate >abc. Maybe that (or something like that) needs to be put in the mailing >list footer to keep reminding us all ... If it comes to that, you don't need an OS at all. abc was invented as a pencil and paper method of recording music, and can still be used that way. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
