On 25 Oct 02 3:08 pm, John Chambers wrote:
> Of course, as with the plain-text vs word-processor debate, ABC lacks
> most of the fancy music formatting of some other packages.
Once upon a time, the orchestra was given the tune & perhaps an
indication of the bass line together with some general comment
about what sort of dance & that was that.
ABC can already deal with this very well, and I should imagine
that that is all that the majority of musicians that use it want or need.
> But if we can keep it that way, with "just the music" and a minimum
> of formatting stuff, then ABC will probably live for a long time, for
> the same reason that we'll have plain-text files around for a long
> time despite all the efforts of the Word Processor vendors to
> discourage or block its use.
Just so. A good analogy. Cannot help feeling that attempts to
make ABC more sophisticated would largely defeat it's greatest
virtue - of being essentially a simple `pencil & paper' notation method.
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