I've been working on an Abc 2.0 proposal, which is a stripped-down version of 1.6. Amongst other things, I removed most of the headers (notably A-G, X and Z, to avoid confusion with notes and rests).
Why are you guys wedded to the 1-character naming conventions?
The ":" is a delimiter, that much people are used to. The could then be
expanded to something a _lot_ more readable like
c: --> composer:
a: --> area:
a: --> author
etc. and let single character labels be deprecated and with very constrained usage.
A parser should be able to know that a word at the beginning of a line delimited with ":" is
a keyword.
In other words, can we take a lesson from XML?
Jeff Sz.
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