Paul Rosen wrote: > What projects are there? My imagination leads me to the following. I'd love > to know how else ABC could be used. > > Standard Notation > Tablature > MIDI Player > Transposer > Indexer > Pattern Matcher > Conversion to another format > Instruction (probably needing fragments)
The obvious missing one that comes to mind is an Editor. I'd have a lot of trouble seeing how a general purpose parser as you've laid it out could work for an application like Barfly, for example. I have designed and partly wrote an Objective C based ABC parser (currently shelved indefinitely), and tried to make it general purpose enough to work for an editor app. Reworking my design for that was both a frustrating and educational experience, and gave me a great appreciation for what Phil Taylor has accomplished with Barfly. (Originally, I started writing my parser because I wanted four things: a notation based ABC editor, something which would generate PDF output directly instead of Postscript, something which would generate a new style of Hammered Dulcimer tablature I had worked out, and finally, something which would serve as a reference design. My Mac can now read Postscript files directly into Preview and convert them to PDF trivially, so I now use ABCM2PS for printing. My HD skills have passed beyond the point where I need tab anymore, but it would still be a good teaching tool. And what little ABC editing I do nowadays I've gotten used to doing with Barfly. So my motivations have waned considerably. But maybe I'll get back to it at some point because I still think it's a good reference work, and I have ideas for a player program... ;) -->Steve Bennett To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
