Re: [abcusers] developers/users

[Bryancreer]

Phil Taylor says -

>The system of using ^ and _ to
>denote annotations over or under the staff was proposed by Wil Macaulay
>about two years ago and incorporated in the next version of BarFly
>(which also allows < and > to place the annotation to the left or right
>of the note head when you want to annotate a particular note in a chord).
>Most programs have followed suit.

This is still a bodge of the guitar chord system and too little too late.  It 
isn't safe to assume that any text within double quotes that doesn't start 
with one of those symbols is a chord.

>The only responsibility I acknowledge
>towards the users is to make sure that it won't do them any harm
>(carry viruses, corrupt their operating system etc).

Well giving them software that produces "abc" that is inconsistent with any 
other abc isn't exactly doing them favours is it?

Bryan

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