John Norvell wrote: > All of the tunes (hundreds) in my private collection use |!(newline) > as the line terminator. > Attached are a few examples.
Which all look a bit odd, as if you'd formatted them carefully for source-readability and then some gremlin intervened to insert random amounts of leading whitespace in each line. How did it get there? (Open them with a text editor to see it, I assume abc2win is hiding it from you). Could you post a screenshot of how this source looks to you when you're editing it? > I've never heard of using ! in the middle of a line as a terminator > and think that we should deprecate that usage. Why? Lots of abc2win users do it and as I've been arguing, a lot more people ought to, whatever the software they have. If the ! is only used on the end of a line it adds no new expressive feature to the language. In this line BBe2A4 e2 :| Z ||! what does the Z mean? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
