On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Ray Davies wrote:

> You seem to be saying that there are thousands of tunes written in abc with
> !---! decorations.
> Are they on the web? If so where please?

the first that come to mind are Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Movement 2,
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/abcmusic/sym7mov2.html; some of Jean-Fran�ois
classical music, http://moinejf.free.fr/; my own
(http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/). Apart form these, I've come across several
sinple-to-complex ABC files that used !...!; I suppose most classical
music since 1.7.6 used this useful feature.

Admittedly, some research I did showed that end-of-line bangs ! are _way_
more common than !...! symbols.

However, my point is: why change something that 1) works, 2) doesn't
prevent further development, 3) ensures backwards compatibility? Why some
fellows have a burning desire to change end-of-line ! to * (or whatever
ASCII character they fancy) simply beats me.

My .02 c.

Later,
      Guido =8-)

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