Here is some more feedback that Guido sent me earlier this year on the same topic:
> I'm trying to print drum parts. Is there a way to convert and print with > abcm2ps or do you know how it can be done? Drummers do not like standard > notation. I know, you drummers use those funny-shaped notes. In theory it should be simple to tell abcm2ps that voice "Drum" uses, say, diamond-shaped notes or whatever. As of current version though, this feature hasn't been implemented. AFAIK, no ABC application supports non-standard notation. However, I'm pretty confident that Jean-Francois will add this feature in some future release of abcm2ps. Try and ask him politely to consider a V: extension such as: V: Drum name="Drum" noteshape="square" Alternatively, you might consider purchasing Melody Assistant that is inexpensive, reads and writes ABC, and supports non-standard notation. Ciao, Guido =8-) Wil Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [abcusers] abc drum notation and abc2ps semagic.com 11/15/02 12:22 PM Please respond to abcusers another way to approach this is to have a special keysig or clef for drum notation - just as K:HP is supposed to draw notes in highland pipes style (all stems up, gracenotes beamed together, default gracenote have 2 flags, if I recall correctly), then something like K:drum could draw note heads as 'x'... wil John Chambers wrote: > Toby writes: > | You could always use liquid paper, white-out the notes heads and redraw > | them in as X's with a sharpie permanent marker.. Ha..Ha.. > | > | > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Christopher Myers wrote: > | >> 1) Can I use an "X" for a note head? > > Yeah. Actually, this subject has been mentioned before, > along with the more general idea of other kinds of note > heads for things like shaped-note music. > > It's too bad that 'x' has already been pre-empted for a > kind of rest; it would be ideal for an ornament prefix > saying to draw the next note head as an 'x'. > > This is probably the best way in general to handle such > things. Maybe we could use 'X' (capital) for this ornament. > > The problem with this is the growing list of specialized > ornaments that only work on one or two abc programs, with > the same letter being used for different ornaments. > > We could visit the macro debate again, so that we could > define a !cross-note-head! symbol and agree on a way that a > user could map 'X' or 'p' or whatever to !cross-note-head!. > But so far, this discussion seems to lead to an attempt to > solve all the world's macro-definition problems. As a > result we don't get agreement on how to define a simple > text-substitution in a way that it is actually usable by a > mere human. > > I've been tempted to do something like this in my own > abc2ps clone. The main barrier so far is that I can't make > any sense out of the discussion, so I don't have many clues > as to what the actual syntax might be that people want. It > helps if implementers can actually understand what they are > expected to implement, and so far this hasn't happened with > this topic. > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html