RE: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)
That is exactly what I use to send the postscript files to the printer. Free, and it works. "Richard L Walker"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pensacola, FL 32504-7726 USA -Original Message- From: On Behalf Of Toby Rider Ghostscript.. Richard L Walker wrote: Thanks everybody. I just created a postscript printer that I don't have -- and make certain that any print job to it goes to a file. Several folks suggested something like this and it works. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Composer/Lyricist Distinction
"Mark F. Heiman" wrote: I've got a suggestion for an addition to the ABC specification that I hope won't be too controversial. :] Currently, the C: flag indicates the composer field. ABC shows its instrumental roots in the lack of any way to specify that the words to a song were written by someone other than the composer of the tune. Now that ABC supports lyrics, this is a situation that's increasingly common for notated songs. Certainly, you can put both pieces of information in the composer field, but that limits your flexibility in searching and displaying the data. Of course, all the uppercase letters are in use for field flags, so I don't know what would be best -- maybe lowercase c: ? Is this something that seems valuable to anyone else? Definitely yes. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Composer/Lyricist Distinction
Currently, the C: flag indicates the composer field. ABC shows its instrumental roots in the lack of any way to specify that the words to a song were written by someone other than the composer of the tune. Now that ABC supports lyrics, this is a situation that's increasingly common for notated songs. Certainly, you can put both pieces of information in the composer field, but that limits your flexibility in searching and displaying the data. Of course, all the uppercase letters are in use for field flags, so I don't know what would be best -- maybe lowercase c: ? "A:" for "author" and ditch the present useless standard label for that field. === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Composer/Lyricist Distinction
Jack Campin suggests: | Currently, the C: flag indicates the composer field. ABC shows its | instrumental roots in the lack of any way to specify that the words to a | song were written by someone other than the composer of the tune. Now that | ABC supports lyrics, this is a situation that's increasingly common for | notated songs. | | "A:" for "author" and ditch the present useless standard label for that field. I'll second that. I've had numerous uses for this, and "A" sure looks like the obvious choice. I wonder how many files use the current A header line? I don't recall ever seeing it outside the examples, but I haven't been looking for it, either. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
