> If it had been agreed that ! could be used as a line break and that > had been documented in the abc standard, I doubt that the ! would > have been considered as the symbols for the macros.
History: abc2mtex (and its documentation) came first, then abc2win (and its documentation), then the 1.6 standard - which was more or less a minor rewrite of the abc2mtex documentation, with features no other program has ever implemented or is ever likely to, and ignoring what Jim had done. Which kinda explains why Jim never bothered arguing for his ideas on this list afterwards. That is, the 1.6 standard already made the same kind of mistake that the 1.7 one did (with 1.7 using abcm2ps instead of abc2mtex). One reason this might have happened is if, as Bryan seemed to imply, the abc2win documentation was only in the form of Windows help files - that format seems to be so obscure that nobody's written a converter from it to anything platform-independent, and maybe Chris didn't have any means of reading it. Is the abc2win documentation now available in some public format? > As far as I'm concerned, abc2win is obsolete and I only really care > about programs that are being actively developed and can move on > when there is a need but there are perhaps far too many files > written in this program warrant supporting ! as a line break... More to the point, that feature does something so useful it would need to be reinvented anyway, even if abc2win had never existed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
