On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:27:07AM -0400, Wil Macaulay wrote: > > It will be interesting to see where the next explosion (of content, I > mean, not > of personality!) takes place. I'd love to see it in the area of vocal > music - > hymns and such-like. My personal opinion is that abc is most useful > for large bodies of similarly-styled music to be used by musicians as a > rough > guide to repertoire instead of an exact guide to performance. I guess > that's > why I don't expect an explosion of content when/if Finale supports abc > output...
I think you could be riht. My guess is that, if programs like this do start "speaking ABC" it could be rather a one-way process (that's not in any way an argument against it) in the same way that lilypond currently seems to be. You could take ABC and feed it into something else that gives, eg, explicit layout, and all the rest of the <goodstuff> that <yourpackageofchoice> gives you. And then you can't re-export that to ABC without losing <ggodstuff>, which after all you want, because if you're content with what ABC gives you you'd be using that primarily. Um. And there again, you're importing it from ABC because you want the goodstuff that ABC gives you that, eg, Finale doesn't. Like the ability to _handle_ an "explosion of content". I had getting on for a thousand tunes typed up in Finale, once, before I discovered ABC. It needed a separate database app to keep track of filenames and header info. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
