Eric, I hope you don't mind me pestering you about this, but since you seem to know something about it, you're the lucky one. ;-)
If you would, take a look at this: http://users.starpower.net/paradiddle/rudimenter_img.htm This is the ultimate goal of what I'm working on. I'm trying to replicate all the music for my Fife and Drum corps, and this is the preferred style of percussion notation - called the Basel style (see http://users.starpower.net/paradiddle/basel_style.htm). Notes above the line are to played with the right stick, and notes below, the left. It is also acceptable (for the drummers in my Corps) to write the notation on a standard 5 line staff, using e and c for the right and left, respectively. I am trying to implement a single line staff, using what would be the middle line (or B on a treble cleff) for the solitary line. Basically, I see two options for myself: 1) (easy) Rewrite the staff symbol (in syms.c) so it always prints the single line. I was trying this, but I end up getting just the bottom staff line (treble clef E) and can't figure out how to make it print the B line. 2) (harder?) Add a new "staff" type, so I can maybe use K:perc basel or something like that, and it will give me the staff I want. Basically, I'm trying to NOT completely reverse engineer abcm2ps, since I know absolutely no postscript, and my C is very rusty. I was hoping Jef (Moine) would reply to some of my posts, but since this seems such a custom request, I doubt he would put time into adding this feature, seeing as drum notation does not seem to be the direction abc is going. Any thoughts? Thanks, Chris > > From: Forgeot Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/08/14 Thu PM 01:32:52 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re:abcm2ps and 'extras' > > Hello, > > yes, it seems to work now. > > About the ps output, it's displaying correctly with the one you > generated, I don't understand why mine was broken, it generally > works without pb. > > I saw the parallel lignes that your ps code generated, but I don't > think I'd have some use for this. For drum notation, some "o" and > "x" are enough for me. > ex : > http://anamnese.online.fr/iran/igha.pdf > and the source : > http://anamnese.online.fr/iran/igha2.abc > > Btw if you're interested in creating symbols in ps, since you said > you had to adjust all by hand and test, and you're using Linux / > Unix, I suggest you try http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/ > It's very powerfull and can export in ps, so you just have to copy > and paste the code. > > An example of what I've done with it, for abcm2ps : > > http://anamnese.online.fr/iran/persian_music.html > > A probable more impressive example can be found here, but > unfortunately, I didn't managed yet to use it with abcm2ps, it's > much work : > > http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/renaissance_fonts.html > > Greetings. > > Eric > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit : > OK, Eric, We'll try again. > Here it is. If this doesn't work, > > I'll just put it up in my webspace, and you can grab it from > > there. > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! > Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > Christopher Myers em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: chrismyers001 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
