Good points, Larry. I have observed over the decades that it is often more productive to describe what we would like to see, but let PG Music figure out how to accomplish it, if they can.

This issue is a bit different from many others, in that we are all pretty clear on what we want to see. We also have a step in the right direction, in that BIAB does output limited Music XML. That language is, for the most part, a standard. As a programming professor, I fully agree with you that, even if everything is perfectly clear, it's still not easy to code.

One quick clarification, if I may. You can remove MIDI from your list. Just about all music software reads MIDI. The central problem is that the MIDI standard does not include chord data. That's why we are looking at other ways to get a BIAB song, with chords, into dedicated music notation software.

At least, I think it's clear.

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