On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:25:19AM -0400, Tom Keays wrote: > > The system Phil proposes below wouldn't work at all for me. That is to say, > I know I wouldn't use it even if he went to the trouble to implement it. > > > I think, therefore, that I can only support them if they are placed > > immediately adjacent to the tune to which they apply - either immediately > > before the X:, or at the end of the tune before the blank line which > > indicates its end.
Umm. Somebody's already mentioned the TuneFinder here, haven't they ? And it's a point - An app that picks selections of tunes out of an abc file would treat the 2 cases differently, no ? %%newpage X:1 T:What ? K:C aaa aaa|] and the parser kicks in at the X: and the tune is extracted starting with the X:, the %%newpage isn't part of the tune. But X:1 T:What ? K:C aaa aaa|] %%newpage and the parser stops on the blank line, the %%newpage is extracted as part of the tune. I'm not sure this is desirable behaviour ? It runs into a much more general question, actually - if you re-order tunes in an ABc file, how do you handle any interposed non-ABC text, where should it go ? I don't think there's a clean answer to this. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
