In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Webber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >From: "I. Oppenheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote: >> >> > BTW, a year or so back, I had my tune finder's search bot count >the >> > tunes that seemed to come from abc2win (because of the ! >chars, or >> > because they had a "% ... abc2win" comment). It came to between >9 and >> > 10% of the tunes. >> >> Good to have some actual figures! > >If > >1. the above comment means that abc2win always writes its name in a >comment > >and > >2. The files which use ! in the middle of a line as a line break are >almost all written by abc2win > >then this is very encouraging news! > >The standard can be set to say that !...! is a special symbol, and >developers can programs to read files on that basis UNLESS the >header contains "abc2win" in which case it is a line break! > >Someone tell me that life really could be that simple! >Please!!!!!!
Good thought, Dave. You had me excited for a minute. However users of abc2win may well (probably?) encode their abcs by hand with a text editor. Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
