>> 1 remove all CR and LF characters. >> 2 remove all </p> >> 3 change all <p> to CR/LF >> 4 change all <br> to CR/LF > > While I recognize this is a "first stab" heuristic, it fails because > of too many assumptions. > For line endings: > Windows/DOS use CR/LF > Unix/Linux/Mac OS X use LF > Mac classic uses CR
Doesn't matter. The idea is to generate a valid ABC file with the text line breaks marked by *some* consistent choice of those. Translating for some client elsewhere is a separate problem - and one solved by the designers of the FTP protocol about 30 years ago. I wonder if there is a site somewhere that represents ABC tune lines internally by 80-column card images in EBCDIC? - if so there's no reason any user outside should ever know or have it cause a problem. Where you *are* going to get a problem is if the input file uses a mixture of linebreak characters and HTML tags to indicate ABC line ends. Could anybody really be that stupid?... er, well... > An emerging requirement for HTML is that ALL tags be paired win > an <TAG ON> </TAG OFF>. Really? I thought </P> was deprecated? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
