On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you read carefully what I wrote, you will > understand that the point I was trying to get over > was that the principle of a standard is to unify abc > regardless of its origin. I don't want to have to > use a different set of parsing rules depending on the > origin of the file.
On the contrary, the upcomming standard will recommend parsers to read ABC as liberal as possible, so that one parser can parse as much ABC as is reasonably possible. On the other hand, the standard urges programs that _write_ ABC to do that as strictly as possible, with as much information as possible. > Then why are you saying what applications MUST do? I agree the wording was too strong. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
