On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, John Chambers wrote: > This is one of the standard problems with "universal" data formats. > The people who design such formats usually seem to miss a lot of the > information that is in other formats, or decide that such information > isn't needed. > > The graphics world has some good examples. Thus, you can find > programs that convert formats like PS, PDF, HTML, and other annotated > formats into GIF or JPEG. The result may look the same on the screen. > But when you try to do the reverse conversion, you discover that GIF > and JPEG really just represent pixels, and lack aany of the
I can see your point. But even then, though not perfect, such tools can be quite usefull. The same can be said for a tool to convert music/score formats. I don't mind doing some or possibly lots of manual editing afterwards. A conversion tool may be able to speed up my work. -- Martin Tarenskeen To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
