[abcusers] Re: Page set-up in abc4mac

2001-04-24 Thread Simon Wascher
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) So I tried it. I can't get it to work. I fed the following abc through abc4mac: X:1 E:lw 360 % 5 inches T:Line width test 360 in header M:C K:C CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|] X:2 T:Line width test 360 in music M:C K:C E:lw 360 % 5

[abcusers] Re: Page set-up in abc4mac

2001-04-24 Thread Robert Bley-Vroman
Dave Barnert wrote, regarding the use of a .fmt file in abc2ps (or abc4mac): Please give me step-by-step including how to enter the -F in the command line and what to do with the -o -O = that's already there. I'm not asking you to design a new format file for me (I'll get the hang of that by

Re: [abcusers] Re: Page set-up in abc4mac

2001-04-23 Thread Simon Wascher
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to produce high resolution staff notation from abc files on a Mac, and it needs to be no more than 6.5 inches wide. here is not a perfect solution but a simple one: I use Barfly for doing such things: by changing output size and staff width one can

Re: [abcusers] Re: Page set-up in abc4mac

2001-04-23 Thread John Chambers
| Robert Bley-Vroman wrote- | | I produce output for printing on 4x6 cards using abc4mac. I | use a format file (specified with -F in the command line). Here, | for example, is the format file I use for my own needs. It may | be different from yours, since I'm primarily interested in |

Re: [abcusers] Re: Page set-up in abc4mac

2001-04-23 Thread Simon Wascher
Hello, John Chambers wrote: (...) I did put together a start on a document a while ago: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc/abc2ps_fmt.html (...) Just these days I tried to figure out the meaning of all these .fmt parameters. Alltogether I still do not but would like to know the

[abcusers] Re: Page set-up in abc4mac

2001-04-23 Thread DavBarnert
Laura wrote: I don't know anything about abc4mac, but it looks like some members of the abc2ps family will let you say, within the ABC file: E:lw number where number is the number of points to set the line width to. I believe that there are 72 points in an inch, so try