I don't understand where this is coming from. ABC is the closest thing to an operating system independent format that I have seen. The only problem that I know of is in the interpretation of CR, LF or CRLF as line end delimiters. I believe that many programs (and Muse for certain) will allow any of the three so in as far as there is such a thing as a "Unix based" ABC tune, Muse will play it just fine on a PC. Troubles only start to arise when a tune started on one system and then was partly edited on another so that you get something line CR, CR, LF, LF and have to decide just how many line-ends that is supposed to be. As far as ABC is concerned it matters little as you only really need to know whether is was none, one (line-end) or several (tune-end) and this has never seemed to be a problem so far.
Have I completely missed the point? Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! & voting for abc standard A possible topic? Is there an abc program that will play Eunich, oops, I meant Unix based tunes, and all of the other formats on a PC? If not, why? And if not, what is the point of a standard when many of the tunes are incompatible to ALL o/s formats. Perhaps those lofty developers resident here could better occupy their time developing a PCMACRED HAT o/s to accommodate the various tune formats available. A program that would interpret tunes in other formats would be handy, now there's a challenge!!!!! Regards to most, Stephen Black -----Original Message----- From: Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 2, 2001 10:49 AM >>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Frank> And, oh yes, let's start discussing something really simple. We all need > Frank> some discussing practice before we try to handle the big stuff. > >So propose a topic. >Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
