Re: [abcusers] top margins

2002-11-15 Thread joe
John Chambers wrote:

> | Isn't that what the pseudocomment %%titlespace is for?

>   %%topmargin 15cm

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Re: [abcusers] top margins

2002-11-15 Thread John Chambers
Chris comments:
| > Nah.  What I want to do is print a tune unto a page which has already has a tune 
|printed
| > on it !
| >
| > It is definately possible, but I have just forgotten how :-(
|
| Isn't that what the pseudocomment %%titlespace is for?
| I think the default is 10 or 20, so if you put
| %%titlespace 60
| before your T: line, it adds 60 (pixels?) of space before it prints the
| title.
|
| Details for most of the pseudocomments are in the New.Features file that
| comes with abc2ps and abcm2ps.

Yup, and that feature is pretty much  restricted  to  those
programs, though I wouldn't be surprised to hear that a few
other abc programs recognize them.

Actually, if  you're  using  an  abc2ps  clone,  there  are
several   pseudocomments   that  will  work.   %%titlespace
probably isn't the best,  since  it  refers  to  the  space
between  title lines, and will still put the first title at
the top.  You might want to try:
  %%topmargin N
  %%topspace N

These add together to control the space down to the line at
the  bottom  of the first title.  The value of N can have a
suffix  of  "pt"  (points),  "cm"  (centimeters)  or   "in"
(inches);  the  default  is points if you don't include the
unit.  The cleanest way guarantee that the top  15  cm  are
blank is:
  %%topmargin 15cm

You'll actually get a bit more space than this at the  top,
since  the title will then be positioned %%titlespace below
that, and  if  you  don't  specify  %%titlespace,  you  get
whatever  its default may be in your particular copy of the
program.


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Re: [abcusers] top margins

2002-11-15 Thread Christopher Myers
> 
> Nah.  What I want to do is print a tune unto a page which has already has a tune 
>printed
> on it !
> 
> It is definately possible, but I have just forgotten how :-(
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 

Isn't that what the pseudocomment %%titlespace is for?
I think the default is 10 or 20, so if you put
%%titlespace 60
before your T: line, it adds 60 (pixels?) of space before it prints the
title.

Details for most of the pseudocomments are in the New.Features file that
comes with abc2ps and abcm2ps.


Good luck!
-Chris

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Re: [abcusers] top margins

2002-11-15 Thread joe
Phil Taylor wrote:

> >I've asked this question here before and got the correct answer, but I
> >have forgotten it:
> >
> >What do I put at the top of my abc source to move the whoe piece down the
> >page ?  In other words, how do I set a top margin ?
>
> There's no general answer to this, as it depends on what software you are using.

I am using abcm2ps, but can find no hints in the help.

> The only exception to that is for the case where you need to increase the space
> between two tunes, which you can do in most programs (I imagine) by adding some
> empty W: lines at the end of the previous tune.

Nah.  What I want to do is print a tune unto a page which has already has a tune 
printed
on it !

It is definately possible, but I have just forgotten how :-(

Thanks a lot.

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Re: [abcusers] top margins

2002-11-15 Thread Phil Taylor
Joe Mc Cool wrote:

>I've asked this question here before and got the correct answer, but I
>have forgotten it:
>
>What do I put at the top of my abc source to move the whoe piece down the
>page ?  In other words, how do I set a top margin ?

There's no general answer to this, as it depends on what software you are using.
The only exception to that is for the case where you need to increase the space
between two tunes, which you can do in most programs (I imagine) by adding some
empty W: lines at the end of the previous tune.

Phil Taylor


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[abcusers] top margins

2002-11-15 Thread joe
Oh dear,

I've asked this question here before and got the correct answer, but I have forgotten 
it:

What do I put at the top of my abc source to move the whoe piece down the page ?  In 
other words, how do I set a top margin ?

Is there an archive for this list ?

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Re: [abcusers] top margins

2002-04-04 Thread Atte Andre Jensen

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, joe mc cool wrote:

> Please,
>
> I use abcm2ps on a linux machine and it works great.
>
> I then use ghostscript to print the resulting ps file to a laser
> printer.
>
> But how to I arrange to have a substantial margin at the top of the
> printed page ?  I would like to print tunes unto a page that has
> already had a tune(s) printed.

put
%%topmargin 10.0cm
in the beginning of your abc file
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[abcusers] top margins

2002-04-04 Thread joe mc cool

Please, 

I use abcm2ps on a linux machine and it works great.

I then use ghostscript to print the resulting ps file to a laser
printer.

But how to I arrange to have a substantial margin at the top of the
printed page ?  I would like to print tunes unto a page that has
already had a tune(s) printed.

Of course I can combine abc texts into the one file and have multiple
tunes on a page that way, but sometimes this is just not convenient.

TIA

Joe Mc Cool
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