>| 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. > Well, for staff notation, my Tune Finder shouldn't have any probem. > It will produce the the title, composer, etc, and no staff. [...] > As for sound files, I use abc2midi, which produces a really short > file if there's no tune body. That's about all it can do, I suppose. > But it doesn't fail.
These aren't the most helpful behaviours. The user is left guessing as to why they got an empty staff or silent MIDI file. An explicit notation to say the body was meant to be empty, passed onwards through the pipeline, would reassure them that nothing had gone wrong and give them a better idea of what to do next - i.e. read the ABC source. One place this information might be displayed is in the Tune Finder index itself, in the field that lists the fields present in the tune. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
