In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Bigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> > Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:06:28 +0100 >> > From: Bernard Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > writes >> > >Bernard Hill wrote- >> > > >> > > >Surely by the standard >> > > >(www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/abc-draft.txt) H *is* predefined >> > > >as fermata. >> > > >> > >But that's not the standard. That's the draft of the elusive next >> > >standard. >> > >> > I was advised by Chris Walshaw himself that that is the current standard >> > and has replaced the one on the standard web site. > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:08:59 EDT > >> Cool. Thanks. First I'd heard. No mention of it on Chris's web >> site (still refers to it as draft and 1.6 as current). >> >> Does everyone know about this? My subscription to the list was >> broken for a couple of months earlier this spring, so I might >> have missed it. > >I've been on the list continuously during that time, and I certainly >didn't know that there was any official proclamation (whatever that >means) of the 1.7.6 standard becoming current. Certainly >http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/#standard currently refers to 1.6 as >the standard and the 1.7.6 document as a draft. > >However, several developers have been coding to the 1.7.6 draft for >quite some time. (In fact, discussion on this list suggests to me that >a majority of developers appear to have either implemented many of the >elements in the 1.7.6 draft standard, or at least have been careful to >avoid violating it wherever possible.) Given that, it would seem >reasonable to me to treat the 1.7.6 document as if it were the current >de facto standard.
That's pretty much what Chris said to me on enquiry. I've certainly been implementing to that document!!! Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
