>> I'm getting quite tempted by the idea of putting all the ABC on my
>> site into archive files so as to counter search engine abuse.
> If you have access to the root level directory on your site you can put
> up a Robots.txt file to tell webspiders not to index part or all of your
> site. If you don't have such access there's also a Robots META tag you
> can include in each page that you don't want indexed.
I'm quite happy with indexing, it's random extraction of content I want
to discourage. The WWW culture has been over this issue already, with
general consensus (backed up in the Shetland Times vs Shetland News case
by legal precedent); site links are always ok, pulling out bits of other
people's pages and plonking them into unattributed frames isn't.
[Tune Finder]
: One of the formats returned is MIDI. This is done by feeding the
: selected tune to abc2midi, which is the only program that I know
: of that can run on unix as a subprocess to a CGI script, read ABC,
: and produce MIDI. One of its properties is that it only translates
: the first tune in its input.
The Mac port didn't behave that way last time I tried it...
: So if you want to hear the 17th tune in the file, you must precede
: abc2midi with a filter that cuts out everything before the X:17 line.
I don't find this a problem, as I'm providing ABC for people who are
or are prepared to become ABC users (that's why I take care to make
it readable as source). If your engine refused to convert any of my
stuff into other formats that'd be fine by me.
One piece of file-context-dependence that I am likely to introduce on my
site fairly soon is BarFly macros. For some stuff I want to transcribe,
these make for a big improvement to source readability and accuracy of
transcription. I believe some of the Windows implementors may be thinking
about supporting them (Henrik? Laurie?) but there seems to be no
interest as yet from the Unix camp. I'd rather get the ABC right first
and wait for the programmers to catch up. In this instance, the macros
need not even be in the same file as the tunes, though I don't intend to
exploit that possibility for a while yet.
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