On Mon 22 Oct 2001 at 10:12AM -0500, Taral wrote: > > I'll take this time to announce that I am working on a "libabc" that > eventually will handle abc file parsing so that development of new abc > applications is easier. >
I took a similar approach when writing abc2midi. This shares its parser with yaps and abc2abc. There is also Jeff Moine's tclabc, which stores the tune internally (whereas my parser passes the data on as it finds it). Some time ago I toyed with the idea of creating an intermediate level format (ILF) which would make it easier for developers to create new tools. We would then have separate programs for abc -> ILF ILF -> PostScript / Display on Screen ILF -> MIDI The idea is that the ILF is read and written by computer and designed to be very simple to parse. All this seemed like quite a lot of work, so I never got very far. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
