Guido Gonzato asks: | as you know, Irwin Oppenheim and I are trying to put together a proposal | for ABC 2 standard. I have a simple question: has anybody actually seen | the u: (lowercase u) field in ABC files? We are considering whether | leaving it out.
It turns out I can ask my Tune Finder about this, because it keeps a list of the header lines used in each tune. It actually found one, and it was in my own collection! But this isn't any sort of personal claim, because it's in: http://trillian.mit.edu//~jc/music/abc/mirror/abcusers/MLargubbensBrudpolska_1.abc As you can see, this directory is for tunes extracted from this mailing list. The tune is a polska from Henrik. The funny thing is that he uses both U: and u: to define the U symbol, which is used exactly once. So the definitions take up more characters than they save. Not that it matters. This is clearly an example of the uses of U: and u: so who cares if it saves any space or typing? Among the 150,000 or so tunes that the Tune Finder knows of, this is the only example of u: that was found. (There are actually three matches, but they're all exactly the same tune.) If anyone else has used it in your online tunes, my Tune Finder doesn't know about your collection. (So send me the URL.) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
