Re: [abcusers] links and anchors

[Richard Robinson]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, James Allwright wrote:
 
 This is really a question about HTML and web browswers, not abc. Only
 HTML files supports tags as far as I know, so you cannot put tags in
 abc files, just as you cannot put tags in JPEGs, PNGs, Postscript
 files or plain text files. However, if you are prepared to write a
 few scripts to process abc files and produce HTML, you can probably
 find a way to get what you want.
 
 On Wed 10 Oct 2001 at 02:50PM +0100, Jack Campin wrote:
  It would be handy if I could not merely configure a browser to start up
  an ABC application, but have it go to a particular tune in an ABC file
  using the HTML anchor syntax:
  
 A HREF=NurseryRhymes.abc#OldMacDonaldOld MacDonald had a Farm/A
  
  in the referring file, and a tagged line like
  
 X:A NAME=OldMacDonald42/A
  
  in the ABC file.  (Or some means of at least directing the application
  to the right tune, if not a specific point in it).
  
  Can any ABC application already do this?
  
  For which others is it feasible?


The idea is to have the web-browser start an abc-specific app, yes ? I
think that what happens is that the browser saves the file to a temporary
name, then starts up the configured app with that filename as an argument. 
I think that's all they can do, whereas the behaviour Jack wants would
require a second argument, for the tag, whatever it be. So I don't think
it could be done like that (unless somebody knows better, which is not
impossible).

It would be possible via CGI, of course. Run a http server locally, and
call a script to parse an anchor-style URL into arguments appropriate for
a suitable abc program. Or to pick the required tune out of a file and
start the abc program on that. Or some such ...

I've been wondering for ages about trying to build a full read-write
interface to an abc collection via http (possibly via a perl::DBI module
or somesuch) but it would require any user to install a raft of software,
and is likely to be more trouble all round than it's worth. 


-- 
Richard Robinson
The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem


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[abcusers] what's the problem with the Tune Finder?

[Jack Campin]

I haven't been able to connect to John Chambers' Tune Finder for
a few days now.  Demon said they were doing some maintenance on
their US links but this seems too long an outage to be entirely
their problem.

Two things I'm looking for which ought to be out there: (1) a tune
called The Old Polka, quite often played in Scotland, and (2) the
simple Renaissance dance tune (frottola?) Schiarazula Marazula,
in four parts, which I thought I had on paper but can't locate now
I need it.

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