On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Phil Taylor wrote: > Jack Campin wrote: > > >The 1.6 standard is doing pretty well, in that virtually everything > >in it *is* implemented consistently; there are only three significant > >misimplementations I can think of - abc2win's idea of tempo, BarFly's > >idea of where a line breaks, and abc2ps's way of handling gracenotes - > >and only the last of those lets the user in for much typing to work > >round it. > > You could add abc2win's use of the exclamation mark, and it's insistence > on having the notes in chords in a particular order. Also, I don't think > any programs other than abc2mtex implements section headers (section > headers are really only possible to deal with in a program which reads > through an abc file linearly - programs which treat abc files in a random > access fashion as all of the GUI applications do find this very difficult).
By "section header", do you mean the global header lines, external to any tune ? I've been wondering about this recently, whether many people use them. I like them, I find they can save a lot of fiddly typing, but I'm not sure what programs handle them. (Surely it's not _that_ hard for a GUI app. ? Reading & applying them is fairly simple, just go through the file & suck the tunes into memory, with default headers applied where necessary. Writing is an extra fiddle, if you want to remember the globals, but you don't actually change the meaning of anything by not doing that. ) -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
