On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:18 AM, River Tarnell river@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk wrote: [snip]
ABC is mostly used to transcribe Irish trad and other simple tunes, but it recently gained support for more advanced features, e.g. multiple staves and lyrics.
I withdraw my prior protest about ABC: the more recent enhancements make it sufficient for Wikipedia use. (It's still short when it comes to doing full works, but most of the gaps aren't feature's we'd likely leave working anyways)