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Laurie Griffiths wrote:
| For what it's worth, Muse is quite happy with
| X:0100ABCD Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| Richard Robinson wrote that
| Not exhaustive, but ... I have here, and use, abc2ps, abcm2ps, abc2mtex
| and yaps. These will all cope OK with an X: line of
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| X:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| abc2ps complains, but that's all. They all rip the file ok.
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| But I bet there are other programs that won't ... ?
Probably, but rejecting such a tune isn't reasonable, and
should be fixed. Giving a warning is reasonable. One idea
might be to insert a % after the last digit, and then every
abc program should accept it. The worry then would be
programs that strip off comments and don't pass them on.
There are a lot of examples of software that casually
accepts trailing junk in numbers without comment. Strings
like "5cm" and "17.3km" are routinely accepted in a lot of
programming languages, for obvious reasons. "X:0100ABCD"
should be ok for the same reasons, though you'd expect
programs to treat it as "X:100".
One thing I oughta check: I have a number of perl scripts
that, among other things, renumber the tunes in a file. I
should verify that they don't lose such trailing text.
Keeping it would be easy, but discarding the old X line and
generating a new one is even easier.
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