> 3. Separated or intermingled voice lines.
> This is a rather messy problem we ought to discuss at length here at
> abcusers. It's not an issue specially related to Susato, though.
Well it is, sort of. The point of my reformatting of your source
was that for music in Susato's idiom - metrical dance pieces with
the voices running closely in parallel and where each structural unit
fits happily into one line of source - intermingled lines are better.
For imitative contrapuntal pieces of the same era they might not be.
We need both, and we need our software to interconvert between the
two forms without treating one or other as second-class.
> 5. Line terminators
>> This file has <cr> terminated lines...
> I'm afraid that problem is a bit beyond me. As far as I know,
> SaintEdit is the only Macintosh text processor that allows you
> to specify line terminators, and I don't fancy opening each and
> every Musica Viva document in SaintEdit before uploading.
BBEdit Lite does the same (and the full version of BBEdit also manages
site uploading for you). But the problem isn't with text processors,
it's with brainless transfer agents that don't convert terminators in
text files properly. If the original file uses any of the standard
options coherently, it's not the source site's problem if duff web
browsers and mail agents fuck up.
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