>masochistic altruist who will go back and remove all the line-break !s >from all the tune files created with abc2win over the last eight years or so which >might annoy
I guess it's quite easy, sitting confortable behind my computer without knowing how to program, to find a "solution" for a programming problem. Sorry if it's not easy to code, I don't know at all about this issue, but it seems it could be possible to consider "only one ! between two | | = line break" while "going by pair ! ! between two | | = !...! decoration". I doubt someone would use | inside !...! notation. If so, one could only blame oneself if it doesn't display correctly. And I doubt also someone would use both convention in the same notation. We could consider it's not "allowed" in the 2.0 standard to use both. What I'm almost 100% sure is all the Abc2win abc files that cause this problem don't use the !...! notation at all. barline (optional : blablabla) only-one-! blablabla barline = line break barline !...! blablabla (optional : !...!) blablabla = !...! decoration language more clearly in abc format : | abcd ! abcd | = line break (it's obvious one shouldn't use 2 line breaks in the same mesure) | abcd !whatever! abcd = !...! decoration >On the other hand, we do have to maintain some compatibility with >abc2win's >files, because they are priceless. What we must avoid is adding >something >to the language which prevents new programs which conform to the newest >standard from being capable of dealing with abc2win's files. it may be also possible to make as default mode the !...! notation and to put as option (in windows application) or flag (in dos parser) the ! line break so people could choose what mode is suitable for them. As far as I'm concerned I don't have any use of the ! line break, I prefer to keep my tunes as compact as possible when I print them or use P: parts instead to note different parts, but I can undestand some ppl may like this feature. Again, abcd | abcd | abcd | abcd | is supposed to have a line break after the second mesure ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
