Re: [abcusers] suggested modifications to the ABC standard

2003-09-26 Thread David
John Walsh wrote: > I, for one, welcome our new ABC overlords... ;-) In Soviet Russia, abc notation parses you! (Sorry!) -- David Cuny To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] suggested modifications to the ABC standard

2003-09-26 Thread John Walsh
Stephen Kellett writes: >I think there is a problem with the approach outline below by John >Walsh. > >In many places you are taking an already existing tag (for want of a >better word), such as X: or T: or t:, whatever and adding overrides with >no prefix to indicate it is an override. For exa

Re: [abcusers] suggested modifications to the ABC standard

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kellett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes T: CAPTION "my snippet" What if a tune starts with the word CAPTION? Stranger things have happened. From Barry's suggestion about using the space caracter as delimiter. As you give it above with a space after the T:, CAP

Re: [abcusers] suggested modifications to the ABC standard

2003-09-26 Thread Richard Robinson
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:33:34AM +0100, Stephen Kellett wrote: > > In many places you are taking an already existing tag (for want of a > better word), such as X: or T: or t:, whatever and adding overrides with > no prefix to indicate it is an override. For example, the CAPTION > override for

Re: [abcusers] suggested modifications to the ABC standard

2003-09-26 Thread Bert Van Vreckem
John Walsh wrote: I've been looking over Barry Say's proposal, and it seems to me that it fits in well with the existing abc, and opens up a couple of new possibilities. As an example, it strikes me that one could be ambitious with the text (t:) field, and use it to construct documents which mi

Re: [abcusers] suggested modifications to the ABC standard

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kellett
Hello all, I've not posted to the list before before and I've only seem a bit of traffic on here. I did see the article Barry wrote. Hopefully you won't mind me commenting on this. I apologise if I am going over "old ground", as if I am, I am unaware of that fact. I think there is a problem wi