I have some ABC files where I use the notation as a tunographic database - there is no body, either because I haven't got round to typing it in or don't intend to. The GS MacLennan tune file on my website is an example: I've included bodies for the tunes I can reproduce with no problem, but for the copyrighted ones I've simply included a header to describe the tune and say where to find it.
I can imagine this might cause problems for some ABC software, indexes like JC's Tune Finder in particular. Having a reference to a print or audio source for a tune is an advance on having no information about it at all, so these null-body tunes should be indexed, but processing pipelines intended to create sound files or staff notation will need to throw an exception. Would it be easier if there were an explicit keyword to declare there was no body for the tune? If so, what? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
