On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A) According to the chronology compiled by John Chambers on the abc home > page, Chris Walshaw's published standard followed about 16 months after the first > release of ABC2WIN.
According to this same chronology, Chris Walshaw released his original abc2mtex package December 1993, while Abc2win was released in September 1995. Abc2win is significantly incompatible with the standard that was set by abc2mtex, and worse, its deviations have never been documented, up to this day. > B) There is nothing in that standard that forbids the use of ! as a line > break. It is an extension. Syntax like |!: instead of |: is not an extension, in the sense that can be easily ignored by other ABC packages that know nothing about it. It is an ill-designed "addition" that breaks all other ABC software in the worst possible way. > >The problem with ABC2WIN is .... > > >C) that is > >nevertheless advertized on the ABC homepage as being > >the leading ABC application for the Windows platform! > >From my experience that would appear to be true. (At the moment.) You did not notice those Abc2win users that complained that their program could not handle lyrics or print their tunebook properly? This program is hopelessly broken, archaic, totally unsupported and not documented. Forget about it. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
