Re: [abcusers] ps viewer on windows?
See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this feels like a serious bonehead question for me, but I'm usually a linux user, and I'm trying to get abcm2ps running on the WinXP side of my dual boot machine (WinXP Home - out-of-the-box version). I tried installing ghostscript, but it doesn't work. All I want to do is see the postscript files generated by abcm2ps. What do other Windows users use (and don't tell me ABC2Win, 'cause that's no good for me)? Thanks, Chris Christopher Myers em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: chrismyers001 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] Version 2.0.0 voice overlay and lyrics
I have a question/suggestion about the new 2.0.0 standard. (Forgive me if this topic has been covered recently; I'm just back from a European choral tour, and I couldn't keep up with all the discussion over laptop dialup.) As someone primarily interested in typesetting choral music, I was very interested in the voice overlay capability with the '' syntax that emerged in abcm2ps some time ago. Many times in choral music we will have a vocal line splitting into two or three lines for only a few measures here and there, and abc shouldn't require defining a whole different voice for just those few measures. I did not see any mention of this capability in the new 2.0.0 standard, however. Maybe I missed it? Furthermore, it is not uncommon that when a vocal line temporarily splits into subvoices, that the pronounciation of lyrics in each of the subvoices will use slightly different rhythms. The '' character is not currently defined as a separator character in a lyric specification. Is it possible to define the '' for lyrics, in a manner similar to the note voice overlay, to generate a retrace back to the previous bar line, and allow multiple passes of lyrics through a bar that would be lined up with the multiple voice overlays? For each pass through the bar, the successive lines of lyrics would have to be offset vertically like what is done with successive verses. John To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Version 2.0.0 voice overlay and lyrics
John Chambers wrote: One thought: At least with keyboard music, what you have is a transient voice that isn't a true voice, but just appears for a brief time and then fades away. Maybe we could use a single voice, and flag the transient voice with something like a '+' to mean Add this to the voice. The recent example then might look like: [V:1] | A2 E2 G2 A2 | A B c d e f g a | g2 f2 e2 a2 |] [V:1+]| | A A A A A A A A | [V:1+]| | A G F E D C B, A,| The [V:1+] notation would mean to add these into the previous staff as part of V:1. You could use | as much as needed to get the bars aligned correctly, as is done in w: lines to skip to the next bar. Would this solve the problem? It would take a bit of work to implement, but probably no more than the '' approach. I think it could be made a lot more readable, too, as this simple example shows. In most cases, I suppose you would only need one such extra line, to add in the notes that are difficult to put in the [V:1] line. OK, but what I was trying to get a reaction to initially was allowing whatever syntax triggers overlays of notes to similarly trigger an overlay in the corresponding lyrics in the w: line. I am currently up against this limitation in abcm2ps trying to typeset a choral piece where there are the four SATB parts through the entire piece, but only in the last three or four measures the bass part splits into bass I and bass II, with slightly different rhythms for the lyrics. John F. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] RE : suggested patch for abcm2ps-2.11.3
I finally figured this out. Buried in the changelog for abcm2ps versions 3.0.13 and later is the line: Move some non-standard decorations to deco.abc. I hope this isn't old news to most of this list, but for anyone needing !mp! and other non-standard decorations, it is necessary to copy the file deco.abc to your music directory and strip off the last several lines of demonstration abc code. Then use abcpp to #include deco.abc in any .abc file that needs !mp!. It is also easy to define your own custom decorations in your local deco.abc file copy. Now I can finally upgrade to version 3.1.0. JF Eric Galluzzo wrote: Well, I can't claim to know why it disappeared, but oddly enough, !mp! is missing from the 1.7 draft standard. All the others are there (!ppp! through !fff!), but !mp! is missing. - Eric On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 11:16, John Fattaruso wrote: There is now a version 3.1.0 available on http://moinejf.free.fr/, which I just downloaded and built. It has my page numbering patch in it, but still no !mp! decorations. I need !mp! for my choral music, and I can't figure out why it dissappeared from version 3. The version 2 changelog has it appearing back in 2.2.7, and it is nicely handled in deco.c of 2.11.3, but not in deco.c of 3.1.0, and running 3.1.0 gives error messages. So I guess I'll be using the older version for now. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] RE : suggested patch for abcm2ps-2.11.3
Forgeot Eric wrote: First, abcm2ps is now at version 3.0.20 (at least) !! Is this 2.11.3 version from the sourceforce.net ? The last time I checked the abc.sf.net page (recently) I saw there was still a very old release (can't remember the number). Such a pity. There should be just a link to http://moinejf.free.fr and the outdated files should be deleted. You should check it, there is much improvement ! Or maybe the 2.11.3 is the lastest stable version but I find the 3.0.20 as stable. Your contribution has been welcomed and used because it is said : Version 3.0.20 - 02/07/14 '-N' command line option extension (thanks to John Fattaruso). Thanks for the pointer, Eric. The 2.11.3 version is from http://moinejf.free.fr/, and listed there as the last stable release. Actually, I wasn't even aware of the abc.sf.net page. The links on the abcplus homepage, http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/, only supply precompiled binaries for Windoze. (I am currently working on my Windoze box because I upgraded my Linux box to Mandrake 8.2 and can't get anything related to MIDI working on it.) The links on http://moinejf.free.fr/ contain tarballs of source files along with a makefile for MinGW, and that's what I've been working with. I just failed to check that page for updated versions, as I thought there would be some offline discussion before my patch got assimilated. There is now a version 3.1.0 available on http://moinejf.free.fr/, which I just downloaded and built. It has my page numbering patch in it, but still no !mp! decorations. I need !mp! for my choral music, and I can't figure out why it dissappeared from version 3. The version 2 changelog has it appearing back in 2.2.7, and it is nicely handled in deco.c of 2.11.3, but not in deco.c of 3.1.0, and running 3.1.0 gives error messages. So I guess I'll be using the older version for now. In fact since I need to have the page numbers at the bottom, I find conveniant to use the perl script pspage done by Christoph Dalitz. Thanks, I'll check this out. I initially thought I'd add some options for page numbering at the bottom as well, but that would collide with the footer facility in abcm2ps, and virtually all of the choral scores I am trying to emulate use numbering at the top anyway. John To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
