I have a weird thing going on in a multi-voice tune I'm setting. In order to get the base clefs (voices 3 & 4) to draw properly in abcm2ps, I have to enter...
... You should start by upgrading your abcm2ps, it's over four years old! In my abcm2ps (abcm2ps-5.5.2 (August 18, 2007)) the bass clef notes are written an...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Dec 11, 2007 1:23 am
My version of AbcEdit is v#1.18.20 I plan to do a update & was wondering if anyone has spoken with Joop about saving .mid files. Recently I tried to see how...
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Steve Langford
slangford97
Dec 11, 2007 2:03 am
Auburn, When you play the file, a .mid file is created in C:\Temp, which you can grab, rename, and store where you like. -Steve- ... -- Stephen A. 'Steve'...
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V&S
waldgyst
Dec 11, 2007 10:09 am
By the way, I can play my tunes ONLY by grabbing that file and playing it in another application. Does anybody know, why ABCedit doesn't play it itself? (I got...
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Steve Langford
slangford97
Dec 11, 2007 3:00 pm
... -- If your system and your ABCedit act like mine, you should be able to hear the file play when you press <F1> and stop play by pressing <F2>....
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Dec 11, 2007 3:48 pm
Thanks Steve. The Temp has all sorts of fun stuff. That must be why everyone has a computer....
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Steve Langford
slangford97
Dec 11, 2007 4:13 pm
... -- You're welcome, Auburn. :-) -Steve-...
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V&S
waldgyst
Dec 11, 2007 7:59 pm
Unfortunately, that doesn't work, Steve. All ABCedit does, when I press F1, is creating the file. My MIDI settings should be ok, too, because playing tunes...
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Steve Langford
slangford97
Dec 11, 2007 8:16 pm
Vladimir, I am not expert on the history of ABCedit versions or what might work best on other people's various systems, so I "punt". ;-) If your ABCedit is...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Dec 11, 2007 10:39 pm
Joop has been helpful when I have written him. He may be your best source for the missing function. ... press F1, ... playing...
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Richard Walker
rlwalker2
Dec 11, 2007 11:07 pm
I'm wondering if ABCedit is looking for a default MIDI player. I go to explorer window, click on tools, folder options, file extensions and then create default...
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V&S
waldgyst
Dec 12, 2007 9:20 am
Thank you all. My default player for those files is Windows Media Player, but as far as I see, it shouldn't be necessery to launch it, but ABCedit should play...
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lionel.gueganton
lionel.guega...
Dec 12, 2007 3:10 pm
Hello Roberto, I don't know postscript at all but the way I do it using Java is done using Bezier Curves : two curves + filling of the resulting shape. The...
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lionel.gueganton
lionel.guega...
Dec 12, 2007 3:51 pm
Hello, I'm trying to improve my abc4j library (available at http://abc4j.googlecode.com ) and I have a question about the combination of slurs and tuplets. My...
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Roberto Tuninettti
mendofriul
Dec 13, 2007 1:03 pm
Thanks Lionel for your help. I think that the curiosity is the way to create/change things instead receive criticism. I found by myself a kind of curve...
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Myscha
kittybriton
Dec 19, 2007 2:06 pm
At long last, I have started to get to grips (gropes? gripes?) with LaTeX (ProTeXt installation) with a view to using LaTeX to typeset a book which will...
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Susan Dittmar
susandittmar
Dec 19, 2007 3:15 pm
Hello Myscha, I use abc to typeset music for a song book created with LaTeX. But unfortunately I do not use the abc package and thus cannot give you directions...
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Calum Galleitch
abc@...
Dec 19, 2007 3:44 pm
I would probably go for this approach as well. It's worth noting abcm2ps can generate individual eps output for each tune in a file itself, which may make...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Dec 19, 2007 6:24 pm
... Is that the abc.sty by Enrico Gregorio? You need to run latex with the option --shel-escape in order to generate the scores: latex --shell-escape pdflatex...
I played a bit with abc.sty and ran into a problem. Sometimes the pieces of music I want to typeset are longer than a page. In that case, they are all printed...
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Myscha
kittybriton
Dec 26, 2007 2:57 am
Thanks for your help, Hudson. After some tweaking and bashing, I have managed to get this computer (WinXP) to generate the derived files: abc.sty example.tex ...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Dec 27, 2007 2:18 am
... If you have this program (or batch script) ps2eps, its directory is not in the system %PATH%. ... Probably consequence of the previous error. Anyway, the...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Dec 27, 2007 2:20 am
... Sorry, I don't know. I only use abc.sty to include short musical examples in LaTeX docs....
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Myscha
kittybriton
Dec 28, 2007 1:50 pm
... page. In that ... other. ... I think for now, in my own case at least, it may be a case for using OpenOffice to create the text file (nothing too...
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Richard Walker
rlwalker2
Dec 28, 2007 5:05 pm
I currently use the following programs on my Windows machine and am wondering if there is a similar list of programs for Linux. abcm2ps abc2midi midi2abc ...
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jprussell
Dec 28, 2007 5:28 pm
... These all work just fine in Linux. You can build them from source, but many Linux distributions have binary packages. What distro are you using? ... ...
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Richard Walker
rlwalker2
Dec 28, 2007 8:34 pm
Thank you. I'll be using Ubuntu7.+ (spelling may be off) I might have been a geek in DOS days, but no longer. I'd love to find binaries for my system. Thanks...
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Jon Freeman
jon@...
Dec 28, 2007 10:14 pm
... I have Ubuntu Studio 7.10 on my PC at the moment. I think it's the same as yours except it's optimised for certain tasks and has a different base package...
