John Chambers wrote:
>There are two abc apps for palm pilots. One displays the abc as
>staff notation, the other plays the music. I can't install both
>at once, because they both call themselves "palmabc".
Is there a palmabc that displays abc on the Palm OS?
I have two abc apps in my Palm Pilot. They have different names.
They are the only two Palm OS apps mentioned on the abc home page.
One is called PalmABC and it plays the tunes through the speaker.
http://www.palmabc.ganderband.com/
The other is called ABCViewer and it displays (rudimentary) music
notation on the screen.
http://www.biff.org.uk/dave/abc.html
There is no conflict between them. Unfortunately, though, they use
abc files in different formats. ABCViewer uses text files stored
in the Memo Pad as source and ABCViewer stores the abc as text
files in its own format, invisible to the memo pad. If you want to
be able to both see and hear a tune you must copy and paste
between them and ultimately store the tune twice.
Also:
>It's basically like the situation with Word Processor software.
>They are all forced to input and export plain text, no matter
>how much they'd like to block such text. If I'm selling a
>commercial package, I'd much prefer that you can only use the
>files with my software. That way, you (and your friends) have to
>keep paying me, or your files become unusable.
That sort of assumes that the software company is going to be
around and selling/supporting its word processor longer than the
user will need it. If my old favorite word processor, WriteNow
(for Mac), couldn't store files as text, many of my old files
would now be as worthless as all the ConcertWare music files I
spent countless hours creating 10 - 15 years ago now are. :~(
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