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Document Exchange Format

25 years ago

A few years ago a format was proposed that would allow different formatting programs to exchange documents. It fell by the wayside becuase the big guns like Coda weren't interested. Can anyone remember the name of that format and where I can find out any information about it?

-Nigel

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Reply #1 – 25 years ago

I believe you're thinking of NIFF, "notation interchange file format" and you're right, it doesn't seem to have caught on. My attention has been directly lately at ABC, which is a text-based (and therefore editable) notation format which shows promise, and is more of a grass-roots thing rather than a proprietary format being pushed by the big guns.

Does anyone have any direct experience using ABC?

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Reply #2 – 25 years ago

See also: https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=688

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Reply #3 – 25 years ago

At http://mistral.ere.umontreal.ca/~belkina/NIFF.doc.html there's a document dated March 2000 called "The Current State of Niff."

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Reply #4 – 25 years ago

Thanks for the info and URL about NIFF. Any one have any further pointers about ABC? I've not heard about this.

-Nigel

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Reply #5 – 25 years ago

Re ABC: Start here...

http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/index.html

and check out his resource links, especially the ABCyclopedia.

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Reply #6 – 25 years ago

Thanks.

-Nigel

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Reply #7 – 25 years ago

http://www.s-line.de/homepages/gerd_castan/compmus/notationformats_e.html

...gives an excellent overview over various
notation formats.

Greetings,
Harald

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