On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 07:59:01 +0100 ... I scan many HTML/XHTML documents, and eventually, <object> and <embed> seem better. The advantage of <pre> over <div> is...
It's good that you bring that up. I agree that lines containing only characters like space and tabs should count as blank too. Trailing whitespace is often...
I vote for Jef's proposal. Alternatively I would be ok with 2b, although I like that less. I think it's important to note here that people who rely on X:...
Phil, the "free text" cannot be absolutely free; we need additional rules to distinguish it from the file header, tunes, and comments. Please post your...
... To break this down a bit (and amplify it in the process): if we include HTML in ABC, then, * we tie ABC formatting at that level to one specific markup...
... No, I don't want my formatting method to be standardised; it isn't that important that it be transferrable between programs. The formatting information...
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walsh@...
Jul 2, 2011 1:06 am
... Amen to that. I don't qualify as an end-user of HTML. More like an end-sufferer. I use an antique mailer which doesn't know HTML, so I see a lot of it;...
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walsh@...
Jul 2, 2011 1:56 am
... Free text may include any text which can be typed at the keyboard, ... Discussion closed. Still, I have a couple of related historical questions. The ...
... A macro (set of macros) for Open Office and Microsoft Word was posted in December. I never got around to playing with it like I meant to (as I seldom use...
... I assume you are referring to the ones I developed. They work pretty well for me, but I have no idea if anyone else is really using them. I developed most...
... Yes (they were added to the abc software page). Chris...
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Jon Freeman
jon@...
Jul 2, 2011 10:21 am
... No blank line before X breaks the 10 or so small "tunebooks" I have and the extraction I use to get the folkinfo song database into one big abc tune book. ...
Are you saying that there is something rather than HTML to display ABC notation? Â Anyway to implement into an application without using java? Â I'm...
I vote for X: <headers> K: <body> <blank line or eof> In which T: has no special requirements and in which X: does not require an index integer. I'm strongly ...
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Jon Freeman
jon@...
Jul 2, 2011 1:06 pm
... That would get my vote over 2b I preffered in the original choices. ... (Can be interesting with web sites where HTML posting is allowed. I convert to...
... As has been said, the tool most people use to render ABC as graphics is abcm2ps. Once you have a graphics file, then it should be possible to incorporate...
I decided it was easier to demonstrate what I'm talking about. I'm not sure why the discussion keeps veering off into the "using a text file as a database of...
Phil, thank you very much for your statement. Since I said "please", I also say "thank you", both of course in the name of the whole community. ... No, no, on...
... That bit confused me too, but then I decided it was most likely a glitch over the English idiom, as "may [not do $foo]" and "[may not] do $foo" are hard to...
... I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but the 1.6 standard says right at the beginning: "Tunes are separated by blank lines." It seems to me that if tunes...
To: abcusers@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [abcusers] X: and T: syntax - please vote ... The requirement that there be no blank line within a tune currently ...
... BarFly does support this. M: L: Q: U: and m: are all allowed in the file header. I don't think it's a feature which gets a lot of use though. Phil Taylor...
OK - actually I think the standard just needs to define what an abc fragment is - it doesn't really need to define how it is used. In other words, provided the...
Hi Phil ... Whilst I'm broadly in favour of this definition, is there any reason to mix up free text with the file header? Do know of any use cases where that...
... You are right - and this was in 1.5 too (November 1995). ... Yes. ... You could only infer that if you ignore the "Tunes are separated by blank lines."...
Hi Paul, ... Nice example! ... I see all that - the point I was trying to make is that presumably the person coding the page knows that they are going to pass...
Sorry Phil, having sent the message below I realised that the bit that mixes free text and directives just comes from abc-2.0 and is not particularly specific...
... Free text in my files is intended to be read in situ, rather than printed out, so I have files which start with a text introduction, followed by a block of...
