On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, James Allwright wrote: > On Mon 15 Oct 2001 at 10:01AM +0200, Simon Wascher 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 field, it cannot make any existing abc's outdated, and since it is not 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.
You can get _lots_ of characters before the colon, so long as the first 2 are '%%'. Well, only the first one, strictly, but 2 has become conventional for things that at least one program expects to parse. -- 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
