Thank you. This makes it all very clear.
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, James Allwright wrote: > On Tue 05 Mar 2002 at 11:46AM -0600, Christian Cepel wrote: > > I'm a bit confused, reading through the documentation available > online. > > > > Our first task in development is of course to parse an abc file. I'm > > trying to figure out, per the 1.6 standard, WHAT EXACTLY the > _approved_ > > linefeed/newline character, and encoding are for abc. > > > > The problem is that there is no standard for the line separator in text > files (or to be more precise, different OS's use different standards). > The way round this is to allow any of the following as the separator > > <lf> > <cr> > <lf><cr> > <cr><lf> > > If you write the file out again, either adopt a standard format or leave > things as they are. > > The use of 8-bit ascii in abc is limited to text fields (e.g. Composer, > Title) where they might have been used for special characters. They are > not used in the abc itself, so you should probably generate a warning > if you come across one there. > > James Allwright > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > -- + Christian Marcus Cepel ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ + | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | | 5812 Square Circle, Columbia 65203 (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | | Work: 882.8309 Home: 573.443.8676 _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | | ICQ: 12384980 Cell/Page 268.7533 (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | | Computer Support Specialist, Sr. School of Info Sci & Learn Tech UM-C | | WebM: www.coe.missouri.edu/~vrcbd/ *And the wrens have returned & are | | nesting *In the hollow of that oak where his heart once had been *And | + he lifts his arms in a blessing *For being born again. --Rich Mullins + To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
