Dick

To say that midi doesn't handle words isn't quite accurate. There are several types of text events that can be embedded in a midi file. In fact abc2midi will embed the lyrics from an abc file into the generated midi file and some players (Jet for instance will do this) will display these as the tune plays. I even wrote a trivial version in Java to do this - it just had to listen for a midi text event as the file played and display the word (or highlight it in a line of text with a little bit more work).


Mick