Gooood Gracious people, I already retracted the suggestion TWICE as an
idiotic suggestion. Must I start an orphan's fund as well by way of
penance?
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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
> >.
>
> 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.
>
> =================
> Yes, please don't fix something that ain't broke!
>
> I use NEdit on my Linux box to edit ABCs. I have highlighting set up
> for ABC in it. I primarily use abc2ps to create the standard notation.
> I *DO NOT* want to *have* to use some ABC editor and be on whatever
> computer I have that on to do it. Right now I can edit an ABC file on
> any text editor on any computer without spending extra $$. If a
> "standard" to use only a new format tha thas to be written using a new
> dedicated ABC editor, I, for one, *won't* use it. I'll stay with NEdit
> and abc2ps, and I suspect there are many more out there like me.
>
> I have been involved in assisting a friend in teaching an introduction
> to ABC at Hammered Dulcimer festivals (I have the laptop ;-) ), and
> one of the great values of ABC is that these mostly non-technical types
> like the ease and simplicity of writing ABC. And if it is required to
> use a dedicated editor, I think at least some of the attraction to using
> it will go away.
>
> We already have, as has been pointed out, dedicated format notation
> programs out there. But I have Cakewalk for a sequencer in which I
> *could* do tunes, and also an old DOS program called MusicPrinterPlus,
> but most of my friends don't have Cakewalk or MPP. And to buy a program
> that gives one the ability to save the notation in a format that can be
> read by anyone, one has to spend several hundred dollars. So, ABC fills
> a definite need for those of us who don't want to have to go out and
> spend hundreds of dollars to send tunes to our friends.
>
> Besides, hasn't anything been learned from Microsoft? ;-)
>
> My USD.02. ;-)
>
> Rick
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