>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jack> It would be, but it would throw away many of the distinctive
Jack> things ABC can express. For eample, look at the pibroch
Jack> example in my modes tutorial. I put the canntaireachd form
Jack> of the music at the right margin as an ABC comment (it would
Jack> be messy to include it as if it were a song text). Unless
Jack> your ABC -> XML translator retained the original ABC source,
Jack> there'd be no way to recover that information after a
Jack> round-trip translation. What I've done there is perfectly
Jack> standard and works in any reasonable ABC implementation, but
Jack> it's not invariant under translation to anything else
Jack> whatever.
The only translator I know at all well is the abc to lilypond one, and
it retains ABC comments as lilypond comments. Wouldn't that be a
standard thing for any translator to do?
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