Re: [abcusers] ABC for Linux
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 10:53:38 -0200, Paulo =?iso-8859-1?Q?Eleut=E9rio=20Tib=FArcio?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Barnaby wrote: I have been an ABCwin user for some years but am now switching from windows to linux. Welcome to the promised land! Can any lister please tell me which abc program that runs on linux most closely approximates ABCwin in functions. Thanks. [snip - list of Linux programs] You forgot 'tclabc' (in my home page) which contains a native graphical interface to ABC (display, play, record, transpose, ...). -- Ken ar c'hentañ | ** Breizh ha Linux atav! ** | http://moinejf.free.fr/ Pépé Jef| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [abcusers] ABC for Linux
Thanks Paulo Can I contact you privately? John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio Sent: Sunday, 5 January 2003 10:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [abcusers] ABC for Linux John Barnaby wrote: I have been an ABCwin user for some years but am now switching from windows to linux. Welcome to the promised land! Can any lister please tell me which abc program that runs on linux most closely approximates ABCwin in functions. Thanks. I'm afraid you'll have to get used to the Unix/Linux way of getting some things done, that is, use several different packages, each one designed for a specific task: one for printing/viewing (done in *n*x with TeX or PostScript, both of which you should already have right from the box in Linux) output, another for getting MIDI output, others to manipulate the abc source (transpose, separate parts multivoice tunes, and so on), some to get special output (tablature, ...). To begin with, I'd advise to get: - for viewing/printing sheet music: abcm2ps http://moinejf.free.fr/ Converts abc to PostScript. jaabc2ps http://www.guitarnut.com/abc/ Same; also generates tablatures. Win source/EXE zips and Linux RPMs available. abctab2ps http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/ Generates PostScript and lute/guitar tablatures. Site has other useful programs (add-ons, scripts) to make specific tasks easy (number PS output pages, add abc mode to editors, extract parts, etc.). Source and binaries (Linux RPM, zipped for Win). abc2ps http://www.ihp-ffo.de/~msm/ The father of them all. Available DOS executables, DOS and Linux sources. - for MIDI, PostScript sheet music, source manipulation: abcMIDI http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/ 4 in 1 package: abc2midi (converts abc to MIDI) midi2abc (tries to get abc from MIDI tune) abc2abc (transposes, checks, reformats) yaps (converts abc to PostScript) Normally you get the sources (usually in C) to compile (your Linux box has a C compiler, cc or gcc). You might check Guido Gonzato's precompiled RPMs for abcm2ps and abcMIDI as well as his own programs abcpp (a preprocessor to use conditional processing, macros and other source manipulation), abcprt (to get a part from a multivoice tune) and an abc add-on for Jed text editor, at The ABC Plus Project homepage http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/ Except for Skink, these are command line programs. If you don't feel like using the shell, there are Skink http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/7088/abc4mac.html Allows you to edit, view and play ABC 1.6. I couldn't get it to read more complex ABCs. From what I read on ABCWin home- page, that's not quite the functionality you're used to. Java application. Runabc http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/runabc.html A front-end to most of the above and some more (PostScript viewers, MIDI players, builtin and user-defined editor) with interesting editing and finding functionalities. Written in Tcl/Tk (which you should have in your Linux box). Seems more like what you're looking for, as it integrates the many tools in something like an abc development environment. These, I think, will do for quite a toolbox to play with. Anyway, you might wish to check The ABC Home Page http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/ for some more Linux apps. I myself as a rule download and try to install or build whatever abc software I can get; they seldom eat much disk space and generally have some unique feature to accomplish specific tasks. I hope it has helped. Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] ABC for Linux
I have been an ABCwin user for some years but am now switching from windows to linux. Can any lister please tell me which abc program that runs on linux most closely approximates ABCwin in functions. Thanks. John Barnaby To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] ABC for Linux
John Barnaby wrote: I have been an ABCwin user for some years but am now switching from windows to linux. Welcome to the promised land! Can any lister please tell me which abc program that runs on linux most closely approximates ABCwin in functions. Thanks. I'm afraid you'll have to get used to the Unix/Linux way of getting some things done, that is, use several different packages, each one designed for a specific task: one for printing/viewing (done in *n*x with TeX or PostScript, both of which you should already have right from the box in Linux) output, another for getting MIDI output, others to manipulate the abc source (transpose, separate parts multivoice tunes, and so on), some to get special output (tablature, ...). To begin with, I'd advise to get: - for viewing/printing sheet music: abcm2ps http://moinejf.free.fr/ Converts abc to PostScript. jaabc2ps http://www.guitarnut.com/abc/ Same; also generates tablatures. Win source/EXE zips and Linux RPMs available. abctab2ps http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/ Generates PostScript and lute/guitar tablatures. Site has other useful programs (add-ons, scripts) to make specific tasks easy (number PS output pages, add abc mode to editors, extract parts, etc.). Source and binaries (Linux RPM, zipped for Win). abc2ps http://www.ihp-ffo.de/~msm/ The father of them all. Available DOS executables, DOS and Linux sources. - for MIDI, PostScript sheet music, source manipulation: abcMIDI http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/ 4 in 1 package: abc2midi (converts abc to MIDI) midi2abc (tries to get abc from MIDI tune) abc2abc (transposes, checks, reformats) yaps (converts abc to PostScript) Normally you get the sources (usually in C) to compile (your Linux box has a C compiler, cc or gcc). You might check Guido Gonzato's precompiled RPMs for abcm2ps and abcMIDI as well as his own programs abcpp (a preprocessor to use conditional processing, macros and other source manipulation), abcprt (to get a part from a multivoice tune) and an abc add-on for Jed text editor, at The ABC Plus Project homepage http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/ Except for Skink, these are command line programs. If you don't feel like using the shell, there are Skink http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/7088/abc4mac.html Allows you to edit, view and play ABC 1.6. I couldn't get it to read more complex ABCs. From what I read on ABCWin home- page, that's not quite the functionality you're used to. Java application. Runabc http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/runabc.html A front-end to most of the above and some more (PostScript viewers, MIDI players, builtin and user-defined editor) with interesting editing and finding functionalities. Written in Tcl/Tk (which you should have in your Linux box). Seems more like what you're looking for, as it integrates the many tools in something like an abc development environment. These, I think, will do for quite a toolbox to play with. Anyway, you might wish to check The ABC Home Page http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/ for some more Linux apps. I myself as a rule download and try to install or build whatever abc software I can get; they seldom eat much disk space and generally have some unique feature to accomplish specific tasks. I hope it has helped. Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] ABC for Linux
Paulo == Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paulo Skink Paulo http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/7088/abc4mac.html Paulo Allows you to edit, view and play ABC 1.6. I Paulo couldn't get it to read more complex ABCs. I hope you sent bug reports about the ABC's it wouldn't read. Wil is a really responsive developer, and after I sent him some bug reports, it now reads my abc's, but unless you tell someone about the problems, it's going to go on having bugs. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] ABC for Linux
Laura Conrad wrote: Paulo == Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paulo Skink ... Paulo couldn't get it to read more complex ABCs. I hope you sent bug reports about the ABC's it wouldn't read. Wil is a really responsive developer, and after I sent him some bug reports, it now reads my abc's, but unless you tell someone about the problems, it's going to go on having bugs. Thanks for the advice. I'll see to it from now on. Paulo To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
