From: "Richard Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] About the choice of '!' > > > Please don't think me rude, but I think you've missed a very large > > > category of users completely. > > > These are people who record large collections of tunes > > > (admittedly, each tune is likely to be a 'simple folk melody' > > > with or without lyrics), > > > often in the hundreds or thousands of tunes, related by genre or origin. > > > They will use abc instead of or in addition to tunebooks. These people > > > collect tunes and transcribe them, exchange them via email, > > > publish them as a resource on the internet or as a collection > > > on CD-ROM and also want to print them as > > > dots or play them when required. They need software to proofread or > > > proofhear what they've entered, to index, to search, to compare tunes, etc. > > > Sophisticated typesetting is not likely to be a first-order requirement, > > > certainly not at the expense of readability. > > > > But do they 'look' at the abc by means of software or directly. > > I have collected 10000++ of them myself over the years > > (small and large collections/files) and find myself looking at > > the abc-source only if the software is behaving unexpectedly, > > so I would place the collectors group in (2). > > The idea of multiple tunes within one file I personally do not like > > much (I'd rather zip them when transferring) > > Interesting. It's always struck me as one of the useful points about > ABC, when dealing with several thousand tunes, that you don't have to > have them all in separate files.
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