Hello, James Allwright wrote: > > You are right, there is no satisfying solution for it and this is a > > shame. On the other hand it could simply and instantainously be done by > > implementing a DA: = dance field into the header. Since there is no such > > field, it cannot make any existing abc's outdated, and since it is not > > active, I belive it could be used from now on. > Sorry, this won't work. You can only have 1 character before the colon, > otherwise you are going to have lots of parsers complaining.
It is a pity if it is that way. And my copy of barfly did not complain on a first try. So its definitely something which the actuall programs rely on ? In my simple mind the rule could also have been: accept (between linebreak linebreak X: and the first K:) as a header what is between a line break and the next colon. I see it: [from the standard:] ...that any line beginning with a letter in the range A-Z and immediately followed by a : is interpreted as a field... ...archive fields do not affect the output at all... - (practically as long as "fields" with two letters are restricted to the header area and use just those letters used in archive fields they could not do any harm. The question then would be if any indexing application would support it. I am willing to change the standard if it does no harm to actuall programs and therefore existing abc files) regards, Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
