abc2ps is the one that gets most traffic on this list because it's the one that has several developers and they've chosen to use this list as their internal development list. That's OK but it doesn't mean anything at all about how universal it is or whether it is "the standard". It may be so, but that's a completely different question.
I could argue that because it gets the most queries it's the one that poses the most problems. That would however be equally spurious. I think that the truth is harder to get at. L. ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] dynamics (again) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am not a Mac user so I have no direct experience of the nature of > BarFly, but I do know that a number of people have posted tunes in abc > generated by using BarFly. From where I'm standing these are BarFly > output. They appear to have various characteristics which make them > incompatible with the abc software available to me. Do these not > arise from the use of BarFly, or is it just that all BarFly users are > working to a different definition of the abc standard? BarFly follows the standard (ABC 1.6) pretty well, but all abc applications differs when it comes to various extensions. abc2ps seems to be the dominating application here in the abcusers community (though not necessarily among abc-users in general!) so people tend to regard that program's use of extensions as the "standard". Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
