On 27 Sep 2003, John Walsh wrote: > Stephen Kellett writes: > > John Walsh writes: > > >>(My own impression is that using white space as a delimiter > >>probably works better for machines than humans---and I think > >>I helped prove that > >> > > >I think you got that the wrong way around? I can give well known (in > >computing circles) examples of where whitespace has been used as > >delimiters and it has caused lots of problems. > > > > Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last. But I was > thinking > of the infamous white-space-delimiter-just-before-linebreak which > computers can see, but which causes many humans to make oversights > which are sometimes caught before said human throws the monitor thru > the window, sometimes not. Possibly we're both right on this? >
Following the discussions on list and some off-list, I will be modifying my suggestions to require a leading underscore on a field label. So, the format will become: (Single-letter tag)(colon)(optional whitespace)( whitespace- terminated label). The exceptions being (There are always exceptions) V: fields in the tunebody which are assumed to have a label so the underscore is superfluous I: field to allow for the I:MIDI in an earlier standard. Does anyone out there actually use the I: field. I know it is mentioned in the ABC 2.0 standard as an alternative to the directive/postscript- comment %%, but has anyone used it in notation? I know there have been some suggestions to sub-divide these huge categories to produce application-specific groups. Any thoughts. Barry Say To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
