abc2midi should handle all the variants of the end-of-line marker correctly.
However, sometimes a chain of automatic conversions will produce 2 end-of-line
markers for each line. Could it be that this is what happened in this
case ?
James Allwright
On Tue 04 Sep 2001 at 08:40PM +0000, John Chambers wrote:
> --------
>
> RJP writes:
> | On 03,Sep/01 8:30 pm, you wrote:
> | > Just like to tell everybody at abcusers that I've just posted a complete
> | > ABC edition of Tielman Susato's "Danserye" at
> | > http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/tunes/susato-tielman/susato-1551.abc
> |
> | This file has <cr> terminated lines I have fixed it using the KDE binary
> | editor so that abc2midi et.al. can read it on linux.
>
> Hmmm ... abc2midi has that problem, too? Maybe I'll patch my copy and
> send in the changes. I did this several years back with abc2ps. It
> was about a 2-line change. Michael Methfessel incorporated the
> change, and abc2ps has since accepted Mac files with no problems. At
> least in C, it's sorta trivial to do this sort of thing. Most linux
> software these days is rather nonchalant about line terminators. We
> oughta get abc2midi in line with the rest.
>
> It's amazing how long such mistakes can continue to haunt us ...
>
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