On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard Robinson said - > > >I want to do some fiddling about with the body of VMP > >tunes, most of which come from abc2win. The number of ways this output has > >of blowing up rest-of-the-world tunes is quite remarkable, and is wasting > >whole days out of my life. Has anybody succeeded in writing a translator ? > > I used the VMP for my bulk testing when developing abc2nwc and a pretty > rigorous testing it gave it. It will convert the whole collection to > Noteworthy Composer without falling over in about 45 seconds. I must admit, > I haven't checked every tune to see that it came out right, but I am quietly > confident.
Proofreading something like that would be a pretty big job, for sure. > Converting back produces abc conforming to the 1.6 standard. ISTR from previous discussion that abc2nwc is a Visual Basic app, am I right ? No use on a linux box, if so ... > I would be reluctant to make the results available without some fairly > thorough checking and without Johnny Adams' permission. Quite right too - and there's the question of updates, etc; if one of the VMP originals gets some typos fixed or other changes, you'd have to be aware of that & update yours, or propagate outofdate versions ... better would be if VMP transcribers could do this <fade out into usual thread> -- 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
