Bryan Creer wrote:
>Phil Taylor said -
>
>>The tune will work with Muse and abcm2ps with a minimal
>>amount of editing (just insert a return after every V:n field).
>
>Why should users have to do that?
Because they are dealing with a tune which uses extensions to the abc
standard that their own software does not recognise. It's a situation
which we all have to deal with.
>How are they going to know that's what
>they have to do?
Because the program that they used gave them a meaningful and
informative error message?
>They may not be on this list.
Then they won't have seen the tune.
>They may never have heard of
>BarFly.
They don't need to. All they need is to be aware of the limitations
of their own program. Since you wrote yours, you must be acutely
aware of those limitations, so you didn't really need me to tell
you what had to be done with that tune to make it useable. In fact
your message was, as usual, a troll. And here am I rising to the
bait again. Silly me.
>They may be under the illusion that abc is a single entity with a
>common standard.
It is. The standard is abc v1.6. There's also a proposed draft
standard which is still under discussion. Neither of them even
mentions multivoice abc. Does that mean that nobody is allowed
to post tunes which use the V: field to this group, which is
devoted to the discussion of the abc language?
Phil Taylor
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