Re: [abcusers] Installing abcm2ps on OS X (no actual ABC content)

2003-08-04 Thread Jeff Bigler
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:10:51 +0100 Once again, apologies for replying to a thread over a week late. :-| > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) > > Did you read the first post of this thread? Three hours spent > fighting with Unix to do something exceedingly simple and > straightforward,

Re: [abcusers] man

2003-08-04 Thread Geoff Allen
On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 11:27 PM, I. Oppenheim wrote: Maybe you have a super-cat installed on your system, but my cats pass all those backspace sequences through, so the above line would be simply equivalent with: man vi > vi.txt which does not do the job. To get rid of the backspace

Re: [abcusers] backslashes

2003-08-04 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, John Walsh wrote: > (I presume that "anything that follows it" refers to spaces.) Correct. > Thus neither of the following will work: > > abc def| gab CDE| % comments\ > FGA BC| ... > > abc def| gab CDE|\ % comments > FGA BC| ... Correct. %-Comments may not appear on a contin

Re: [abcusers] backslashes

2003-08-04 Thread John Walsh
There one use of the backslash I couldn't find in the new draft. It is used by abc2mtex to put tex code directly into the output file; see paragraph 2.3.4 of the 1.6.1 docs. If the first character of a line is a backslash, then abc2mtex simply passes the entire line along to tex. I've fo

Re: [abcusers] braces in brackets

2003-08-04 Thread Bernard Hill
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Bernard Hill writes: >| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes >| > >| >%%staves [Fl1 Fl2] ... [V1 V2 Va Vc] [S A T B] [{HR HL} {OR OL OP}] >| >| String parts in an orchestral work are usua

Re: [abcusers] braces in brackets

2003-08-04 Thread John Chambers
Bernard Hill writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes | > | >%%staves [Fl1 Fl2] ... [V1 V2 Va Vc] [S A T B] [{HR HL} {OR OL OP}] | | String parts in an orchestral work are usually bracketed together (5 | staves) and the top two then braced (1st/2nd violins)

Re: [abcusers] braces in brackets

2003-08-04 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: > String parts in an orchestral work are usually bracketed together (5 > staves) and the top two then braced (1st/2nd violins) outside the > bracket. > > [{Vln1 Vln2} Vla Vc DB] Thank you for this information. I will add that to the standard. Groeten, I

Re: [abcusers] braces in brackets

2003-08-04 Thread Bernard Hill
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I. Oppenheim writes: >| On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joerg Anders wrote: >| >| > Is there a possibility to place braces inside brackes >| > in staff layout. I tried: >| > >| > %%staves [ S1 { S2 S3 } S4 | ] >| >| That is not possi

Re: [abcusers] braces in brackets

2003-08-04 Thread John Chambers
I. Oppenheim writes: | On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joerg Anders wrote: | | > Is there a possibility to place braces inside brackes | > in staff layout. I tried: | > | > %%staves [ S1 { S2 S3 } S4 | ] | | That is not possible. What would be the meaning of | such a notation? | | You can of course typeset

Re: [abcusers] mensurstriche

2003-08-04 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Anders" == Anders Wiren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anders> We have "invisible barline" [|] and we can specify "draw Anders> barlines between staves". So if we can do both of these at once, with the barline on the staff invisible, and the one between it visible, we have what I'm t

Re: [abcusers] mensurstriche

2003-08-04 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jack" == Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jack> BTW, how well do existing ABC applications handle pieces Jack> where the voices are not all barred the same? For single-voice music, most of them used to be pretty good. For multi-voice music, it varies -- abcm2ps used to be

Re: [abcusers] braces in brackets

2003-08-04 Thread Joerg Anders
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, I. Oppenheim wrote: > > > Is there a possibility to place braces inside brackes > > in staff layout. I tried: > > > > %%staves [ S1 { S2 S3 } S4 | ] > > That is not possible. What would be the meaning of > such a notation? Ok! here is e mistake: but this should be pos

Re: [abcusers] braces in brackets

2003-08-04 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joerg Anders wrote: > Is there a possibility to place braces inside brackes > in staff layout. I tried: > > %%staves [ S1 { S2 S3 } S4 | ] That is not possible. What would be the meaning of such a notation? You can of course typeset: %%staves [S1 S2] {S3 S4} [S5 S6] Gr

Re: [abcusers] mensurstriche

2003-08-04 Thread Jack Campin
>> I haven't read the new standard about multiple staves, but does it >> allow specification of bar's *between* the staves but *not* on them? >> This is something a lot of people (not me) like for early music >> that was originally published as unbarred parts. It's usually easier for >> modern play

[abcusers] braces in brackets

2003-08-04 Thread Joerg Anders
Hi all! Is there a possibility to place braces inside brackes in staff layout. I tried: V: S1 clef=treble V: S2 clef=treble V: S3 clef=treble V: S4 clef=treble %%staves [ S1 { S2 S3 } S4 | ] but: $abcm2ps -c -O= w1.abc abcm2ps-3.6.0 (June 8, 2003) File w1.abc Error i

Re: [abcusers] mensurstriche

2003-08-04 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Anders Wiren wrote: > We have "invisible barline" [|] and we can specify "draw barlines between > staves". We also have dotted barlines .| in ABC. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To subscribe/unsubscrib

Re: [abcusers] mensurstriche

2003-08-04 Thread Anders Wiren
On 1 Aug 2003, Laura Conrad wrote: > > I haven't read the new standard about multiple staves, but does it > allow specification of bar's *between* the staves but *not* on them? > This is something a lot of people (not me) like for early music > that was originally published as unbarred parts. I