At 06:37 PM 3/6/02, Richard Robinson wrote: >On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jack Campin wrote: > > > > I wonder, if at some point in the future, the committe who establishes > > > the abc standard might not consider an alternative to ascii text as a > > > file format. I know on first glance there are those who will shudder and > > > scream, but why not. If a standard was created that could not be edited > > > in a text editor, these problems go away. Filesize could still be kept > > > down. The only concession would be that all editing would have to be > > > done inside an 'abc' editor. > >and then a huge amount of abc usage would go away, too. Many people see it >as one of the most useful things about abc, that it can be edited using ><insert favourite text editor>.
This is absolutely a primary advantage of ABC... Otherwise, standard notation programs work just fine for 'archiving' music. The associated issue of file size is almost academic anymore given the size of the modern hard drive. Anyway, *please* keep ASCII. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
