John Chambers writes: | On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:11:05PM -0400, Steven Bennett wrote: | > | > ... (IMHO, | > there should be NO data in an ABC2 file which exists outside the context of | > the current tune -- I don't know if anyone else agrees with this, but it | > makes the most sense to me...) | | While I usually have pure abc files, I've seen a lot of the uses of | abc mixed with text. You see it all the time on some musical mailing | lists. As part of a discussion, someone includes a tune or three in | abc form. It's really convenient to be able to take the message, feed | it unaltered to abc2ps, and see the staff notation. | | Of course, it doesn't always work out that well. Long lines get | wrapped, and it looks really stupid on the screen. So you have to go | back, edit the message, and try again. And people don't always | remember to put a blank line after the tune, producing a bit of extra | "modern" music at the end. But a lot of the time, it works just fine.
I forgot to include the really big annoyance with abc tunes embedded in email text: People have this way of putting most of the info in the English text. Then, if I want to add it to my collection, I have to go in and edit the text into abc header lines and move them into the tune. Since I always want to have interesting info in the abc, this is a lot of extra work. But it doesn't do any good to complain; people just keep doing it. I can easily write code to generate a missing X: line, but extracting the info from English is a LOT more difficult. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
