My two cents: >From my limited experience (the better part of two weeks), I started with yaps, because I was originally only trying to listen to abc files, and yaps came with the abcmidi package (from sourceforge). Yaps did a nice job rendering abc's into ps, but I had some problems with multiple voices, specifically with getting the bar lines to continue through both staves in a 2-voice piece. Next I tried abc2ps, which was better for some things, but not others. Here's a copy from my recent posting to the rec.music.folk newsgroup:
I downloaded the abcmidi package, and am very pleased with how yaps generates output for single melody line tunes. However, I've been having problems with multi-voiced tunes when generating ps files. Basically, I'm torn between using yaps and abc2ps, since they both do part of what I want, but neither does everything I want. yaps (comes with the abc2midi package) nicely handles multiple voices (i.e. "Fife 1" and "Fife 2") as far as being able to separate them, and line them up nicely in printed form. The problem here is I can't get yaps to make the bar lines continue through both parts -- the only place there is a continuous bar line for both parts is at the beginning of each group of staves. abc2ps handles this nicely -- all you have to do is put the parameter "stv=2" in the V: line when you first define the voices, and it works fine. The problem with abc2ps (this may or may not be true) is that I can't make it respect my P: notation (e.g. Parts A and B for playing a tune in AABB format). Actually, having V: and P: together in the same tune completely hoses both attempts. Also: yaps blindly and faithfully respects my line breaks, which I like. abc2ps seems to do only what it wants to do with my line breaks (again, maybe I'm wrong here, too), which sometimes yields output I don't like, e.g. one measure on the final staff. I was eventually pointed to abcm2ps, which took care of all my problems. However, now I'm trying to do weirder stuff that apparently neither program can handle. Someone else pointed me to MUP, but it's a non-abc input format. My two cents. Give me change if I deserve it. -Chris Jon Freeman wrote: > > John Chambers wrote: > > > Actually, if you're using an abc2ps clone, there are > > several pseudocomments that will work. > > There is abc2ps and there seem to be a few clones (abcm2ps, jabc2ps, yaps, > and I guess more). What are the merits of each? > > Jon > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Christopher Myers, Graduate Software Developer Ingenta, Inc. 12 Bassett St. Providence, RI 02903 ph: 401.331.2014 x 102 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: chrismyers001 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
