Jack Campin writes: | | I use A: for the author of the words. This violates the 1.6 spec, | but the "area" idea just doesn't work - you can't fit the geographic | description of a tune into a one-liner.
Maybe we should start spreading the word that this is the best place to put this info. With time, we can make it the de-facto standard. And if anyone looks askance, we can tell them "Jack said it was OK." | I use F: on my CD-ROMs to give the file:// URL of the ABC. People | may want to find the original of something again after copying it | elsewhere and editing it. (I think I may also use this for the | http:// URLs of things I've put on the Web; if not I ought to). I've done this on occasion. And my Tune Finder adds it to every tune that's sent in ABC format. It did take me a few tries to find a way of dealing with the line terminators in a way to seems to work everywhere. Which reminds me: An interesting aspect of writing my search bot was the occasional "false positive" match with bibliographic and other library-like data. They often contain T: and A: lines, and X: is not at all unusual for numbering entries. I've probably mentioned this here before. Actually, I wouldn't complain about this. I've occasionally wondered if we should make abc headers look more like what library software expects. Then you could use that software to catalog and find abc tunes. But I suspect that the value of this may be rather limited. Music isn't much like text. If it were, we wouldn't be having problems with line wrapping. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
