I am about to release a CD-ROM with a large number of very carefully
edited and documented tunes linked off a hypertext commentary (see
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/). This is the work which all the
ABC on my website is spinoffs from. I would like to include a choice
of ABC applications along with it. Would any developers out there
(other than the ones I've already contacted) like to get a copy, try
it out, and report major incompatibilities? I'm not changing any tune
at source level to work round temporary limitations in implementations,
as I expect people to still be using the material in ten or twenty years'
time.
I use some constructs only affecting a few tunes that I don't expect to
be widely implemented; hence my decision to provide BarFly-generated GIFs
and QT files for people whose platforms break on those. That *should*
only be multivoice ABC and underlaid words. If an application fails on
T for trills, can't do bagpipe-style gracenotes (like {dGAG}A{G}A with
no slurring), or insists on initial repeat signs, forget it. I don't
expect any implementor to do really systematic testing, but a general
idea of where a program is useful for my stuff and where it isn't would
be helpful.
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