[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please try tunes on your abc player before posting them. Nobody > wants to post or read abc that doesn't work.
Good point, David, but is that really the right way to greet a new contributor? I know you only wanted to offer some helpful advice, but it ended up looking like sour criticism - to my eyes at least. In this particular case, all that's needed is to replace the double line shifts with single ones - not too difficult and not nearly as bad as *some* abcs posted here even by experienced abcusers (myself included ;-) Don't know what you mean about missing K: fields, though. They come up just fine in my copy of the message. (It's K:F , btw). Oh well, since we're at it, here's some helpful advice or sour criticism (it all depends on your point of view ;-) from me too: The standard abc repeat sign is: :| not :|| The latter is a very common typo and most modern abc applications should be able to sort it out, but don't count on it. The M: and L: fields aren't strictly necessary for this tune, since the default values (M:C - L:1/8) are the correct ones, but I don't think it's a good idea to leave them out from tunes posted on the web. You never know what kind of weird badly-programmed application people will try to run it through. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
