I think that a text file with the score sorted is very useful
especially when using macros to debug the source.
I also added an 'orc.srt' writing in order to debug orchestra macro
errors.

Maybe the best choice is to use memory to process data, but optionally
show the result of sorting and macro expansion in two text files.

-- 
Gabriel Maldonado

http://www.agora.stm.it/G.Maldonado/home2.htm


jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Message written at 27 Apr 1999 10:12:54 +0100
> --- Copy of mail to jlemoin@ibm.net ---
> 
> Some time back while I was away there was a discussion about
> innaccuracies in the length of time of notes.  I have been thinking
> about this a little and I think there is a problem on some platforms
> in the printing of the score.srt and re-reading the numbers.  This is
> done with standard C IO routines, and on some implementations these
> seem highly inaccurate.
>   I can think of a couple of ways round this.  Perhaps teh simplest
> would be to write the score.srt file in binary rather than characters,
> and so preserve all teh bits.  This woudl of course mean that one
> could not guarantee that one could transport the score.srt file to
> another machine -- does anyone actually do that?
>   A second approach would be to write ones own printing and reading so
> it would be consistent, but that sounds liek real work!
>   Or, we could abandon the external sore.srt and use in-memory data
> rather than an external file.
> 
> So, any thoughts or recommendations?  I am willing to do the coding if
> we have a reasonable consensus on what to do.
> 
> ==John ffitch