Bernard Hill wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Webber ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>Someone tell me that life really could be that simple! >>Please!!!!!! > >Good thought, Dave. You had me excited for a minute. > >However users of abc2win may well (probably?) encode their abcs by hand >with a text editor.
No, they type it into an entry window in abc2win. The problem is that abc2win does not add its identifier after every tune in the file, only the last one, so you've got to read the file to the end to get it, even if it has thousands of tunes in it. Also many tunes are posted to mailing lists by abc2win users, and end up in compilation files which contain tunes from multiple sources (and without their identifiers). At least one BarFly user habitually adds exclamation marks at the ends of lines to make them work with abc2win (BarFly just ignores them). Some other characteristics of abc2win files: * They play at the wrong speed e.g. R: reel L: 1/8 Q: 100 Plays like a funeral march. It's because abc2win's player program misinterprets the Q: field and plays evrything three or four times faster than specified. Users just compensate by putting a smaller number in the Q: field without bothering about what it actually means. * They contain large numbers of syntax errors (I don't think it does any error checking at all, and accepts any old garbage as abc). Neither of these is very useful for the purpose:-( Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
