Irwin Oppenheim says > This whole issue is not something to get very upset or > excited about. > > I don't really understand why this thread is still > going on... >
My take on the subject is Most of the musicians I know who use abc 1) are not members of this list. 2) are not computer programmers 3) do not know how to alter faulty abc files. 4) would not know how to use command driven programs. 5) use ABC2WIN to display the abc as score (I once met a banjo player who liked Muse because you can produce tablature.) If this small sample is representative of the rest of the world then any files produced using the !----! format is going to puzzle a lot of people. Remember the original use of abc is to share simple folk tunes on computer systems, the idea of using it as a typesetting program came later, is a minority facility and should not be allowed to mess up existing material. Ray To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
