| I use the Z: field to write I made the transcription, and give | then only the email adress. I found conveniant to write the Url | after it, so I don't use the F: field for this because I would | have been redundant. Do you think we should generalize the use of | the F: field for this purpose ?
That depends. Do you just want the information to be present somewhere in the headers? Or would you like software to be able to use the information sensibly? If you only care that information be present, and don't care that it be usable, then it's fine to put it anywhere you like. If you would like the information to be useful (so that not just a human, but also a piece of dumb software can understand it), then it's a good idea to consistently put the same information in the same place in all the tunes. This is one of the reasons that I haven't bothered having my tune finder keep track of a lot of the fields that people would like to ask about. If you look at much online abc, you'll soon see that people are supremely sloppy about where they put what information. The C field is routinely used to hold place names, years, publishers, and other information. The O field is used for just about any information you can imagine. Titles contain composer names and html <blink> tags. And so on. In some cases, this is clearly intentional obfuscation. For example, recently I saw a line like: K:D % EDorian This made it clear that the transcriber knew the correct key and mode, and was intentionally giving incorrect information. Presumably this was to defeat people using software to look for things by key. When people do things like this, there's a real temptation to throw up your hands, and go play some tunes to cool off. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
