On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, John Chambers wrote:

> Christian Marcus Cepel wrote:
> | 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?
> 
> Presumably you mean a fund for the support and conversion of "orphan"
> tunes  that  are  in  an  early  ABC dialect and don't work well with
> current ABC software. Sounds like a worthy cause to me.  We could use
> it  to  convert  the remaining tunes that use +...+ rather than [...]
> for chords.  Maybe we could also convert all those abc2win ABC  tunes
> with their nonstandard scheme for staff breaks. (Or should we instead
> convert everyone else's ABC to the abc2win scheme?)
> 
> This might be good for a flamefest or two ...

Grin. Yes - probably both, worthy cause and flamefest.

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem


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