| I just completed a transcription of Robert Petrie's 1st tunebook (Scottish, | 1790), which has parts for violin and cello. I wrote the code using Phil | Taylor's BarFly, on which this reads and plays correctly, but it appears | that a lot of other abc software can't handle the multiple voices. Below is | a sample tune; I'd be interested to know what other readers and midi players | can handle this code, especially any PC software (for reference, the 2nd | note in the 3rd staff bass line is middle C). Thanks for any help, or | suggestions for improving the portability of this code! -Steve
I tried it with the original abc2ps, Jef Moine's abcm2ps, and my jcabc2ps. They all handled it. The original abc2ps had two minor problems: It doesn't accept V: lines in the header section, so I moved them to after the K: line. And it can't handle the spaces in the "name = " term, so I removed them. The result looked like: X:2 T:Mrs. Farquharson's Jigg or Quick Step C:Robert Petrie S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790 Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/20/04 N:Petrie's First Collection, page 2 L:1/8 M:6/8 R:Jig K:Cm V:1 name="violin" V:2 name="bass" clef=bass middle=d transpose=-24 [V:1] G|(Tc=Bc) GEC|(Tc=Bc) edc|(Tc=Bc) G=A_B| FGE DCB, | [V:2] z|C3 E3 | F3 G3 | c3 e3 | d2f b2B | ... This worked without problems in all three abc2ps clones. There were some warnings about the unrecognized "transpose" term, but that's to be expected from a program that doesn't produce pitches, and it didn't effect the output at all. All three programs produced pages that look identical. Actually, the original abc2ps doesn't implement the middle= term, and it gave a warning about that. But it assumes middle=d for bass clef, so it worked. Jef and I have both implemented it. Tunes that expect a different mapping than middle=d for bass come out strange with the original abc2ps. Lots and lots of leger lines ... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
