>>> 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. > When it comes to downloading/distributing: YES > When it comes to handeling: definately NO
I use three different editors for handling ABC on the Mac (BarFly, BBEdit and Nisus Writer). With all of them it's much quicker to search a few large files than a zillion small ones; Nisus Writer makes it painfully difficult to search large numbers of files, though the kinds of pattern matching and replacement it can do are way more sophisticated than any other editor I know of. Surely the same is true on any OS? - there's a much larger hit opening a small file than reading a comparable-sized chunk of a large one that's already open. I think ABCMus uses a similar user interface to BarFly (selecting tunes from an index on a file, which can be large) so this doesn't seem to be a problem on Windows either. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
