Greetings fellows. I am setting some pieces that include double and single quotation marks: " and '. I would like if I could use proper left and right marks...
Probably. Quite a while back, I tested the original abc2ps with some UTF-8-encoded Unicode text. It was a tune that had T: lines with Russian, Arabic, and...
... Normally I simply use ``TeX-like'' quotations. This is not perfect for double quotes, as they will result in pairs of characters, but it may look...
Try: http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-foreign-language-support-for- pdf.htmlprint/ I haven't used this, but it seems to be able to do the job. Please let the...
... Nope. Actually, I'd just installed xpath on my new server, which is running Ubuntu 8.04. I used the apt-get command to install simplified Chinese support,...
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 11:43 -0400, John Chambers wrote: [snip] ... I did not notice such a thing: the characters in PS strings are exactly the same as the ABC...
Jean-Francois Moine
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Jul 5, 2008 6:06 pm
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... Looks fine as far as I can tell too - running Thunderbird... ... I don't know postscript one iota but I did notice in the .ps file in the setup section...
... I did a bit of digging, and found that indeed the output of abc2ps, abcm2ps and jcabc2ps produces exactly the same lines for the Chinese titles in that ...
Hi mr. Oppenheim, The website http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard has not been updated since 2003 I think. The link to Chris Walshaw's version 1.6 ABC standard...
Martin Tarenskeen
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Jul 11, 2008 7:25 am
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Oh, what a wonderful man Mr Walshaw is - his website beautifully accessible from my text-based browser (so that I can stay all day in emacs, yay!) ... -- Iain...
Is there anyone who can assist this poster on TheSession.org? Hi, I downloaded abcmus and paid the registration fee just over three weeks ago and I still...
... It's summer - people sometimes go on holiday to places where they can't get their email. Shouldn't really happen, but it does. I'd say leave it a week or...
Using abcEdit (Thanks Joop! great software) can anybody tell me how to include a line of text without music above it (i.e. an unaccompanied recitation)? I'm...
... Here are some possible solutions: X:1 M:3/4 L:1/4 K:C "_this is an unaccompained recitation" x3 | %%text or use text lines... "_this is an" x3 |...
I've had to give up using jaabc2ps to produce lap dulcimer tab. Too many little quirks (notes on top of bar lines for one) make it impossible to produce music...
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 05:12 +0000, Richard L. Walker wrote: [snip] ... Did you look at the file accordion.abc and, in the page http://moinejf.free.fr/abc/, at...
Jean-Francois Moine
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Jul 25, 2008 8:46 am
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The examples at http://moinejf.free.fr/abc/ were beyond my comprehension level but I'll certainly try the font changes. Thank you. ... From: Jean-Francois...
What kind of tools i need to recompile the sources of abc2ps because i would like to have a better G Key, flats, sharp, looks. I think MS-DOS as the target. ...
... You'd probably be better off with abcm2ps. You can get a Windows binary for that at http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/ ... I think when I compiled these...
Jon Freeman
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Jul 29, 2008 3:38 pm
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As Jon says, abc2ps is generally deprecated in favour of abcm2ps, which is much better looking and (apologies for the linguistic violence) featureful. Both are...
Calum Galleitch
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Jul 29, 2008 5:29 pm
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Good evening everybody, this is my first post to the group. I am transcribing Japanese drums parts and I need to have a bar repeated more than twice (like 4...
... You can make complicated repeating sections using the P: (Parts) field. Each section of the tune gets an alphabetical label, and a P: field in the header...
Phil, Thank you for the reply. ... I can see how that is practical for some cases, but it looks like a very cumbersome way to get something very simple. I...
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:18 +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: [snip] ... [snip] You should upgrade to the last abcm2ps version (5.8.1). It has a measure ...
Jean-Francois Moine
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Jul 31, 2008 4:53 pm
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... I think that addition to the abc standard was suggested by John Chambers, and so far I think that only his own program (jcabc2ps) supports it. You can...
Phil, ... Would that force a "xN" notation as well as display the repeat marks ? ... Is this sign non-conventional ? Or does it just happen to not be supported...
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 09:58 +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: [snip] ... Hello Jean-Christophe, This sign is conventional, as the repeat sequence (looks...
Jean-Francois Moine
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Aug 1, 2008 6:01 am
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... Merci Jean-François. Is there a way to contribute to the draft so that it includes them ? Is the draft actively discussed ? And, more important, what...
I monitored abc draft discussions for years and don't think I ever saw a single item added, deleted or modified. Originating with a single person it did what...