My session tunebook (http://www.pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/) is produced in PDF using abcm2ps and then Adobe Acrobat Distiller, and this has worked well...
... Well I can tell you I get the same errors running abcm2ps (the program we use at folkinfo) from the command line on your abc as a text file so I don't...
Jon Freeman
jon@...
Feb 2, 2009 8:26 pm
1541
This is what Jean-Francois Moine wrote me about that problem some time ago: "I cannot change anything in abcm2ps because I don't know in which way Micro$oft...
I've worked on this a bit, and my abc2ps clone (jcabc2ps, everyone should have their own clone ;-) has some code that handles most of the marked characters in...
... I think I'll remain content to confess that I consider one of those beyond my own programming ability, thanks....
Jon Freeman
jon@...
Feb 3, 2009 10:26 pm
1544
I did a Google search for "Unicode font" and found that there are fonts out there that handle a decent subset of Unicode codepoints. However, it may be...
... I've just taken another look at this. The way the email is here, the abc has backslashes in the w: and it is those causing the errors I was getting. I ...
Jon Freeman
jon@...
Feb 4, 2009 9:25 am
1546
... I firmly believe that the solution is to move on from PostScript, which is a 1970s format designed in the days of single byte characters and dominance of...
... Perhaps because the fonts are not embedded in the PDF file? ... I would guess that the PostScript issues with UTF-8 are: 1) PostScript standard fonts (that...
... Jon> Perhaps as John Chambers has commented, we really need UTF-8 to Jon> become workable? It does work in lilypond. It's at a cost -- if you have...
... Well, I've been thinking the same thing. I've done a bit of investigating, but so far haven't found enough information to go about doing the job. I...
... PDF has recently been adopted as an ISO standard (32000), but at least Adobe has been able to keep the documentation available for free download, unlike ...
... I've just noticed these 5.9.x are aligning lyrics under grace notes. Have reverted back to the previous 4.12.30 version for now....
Jon Freeman
jon@...
Feb 6, 2009 4:20 pm
1553
Hello to old friends and everybody who have joined the group since I left! I'm sorry I haven't contributed much here the last few weeks... errr... months......
Hi there. I've a question on Bars. Section 4.8. of the 2.0 draft standard suggest an interpretation for bars that are only made of colons (':'). The bars:...
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 10:43:06 -0000 ... Hi Paul, You may change a font redefining it, as: %%beginps /fontredef{ findfont dup length dict begin {1 index/FID...
Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Feb 8, 2009 2:10 pm
1556
This is one of several good helps that have arrived here recently and it prompts me to ask: Have we a FAQ anywhere? It seems to me if there is not one one...
Greetings, I hope Jef is out here and can help me with this one. I'm trying to use abcmaddidx.tcl on a Mac. tcl is installed. If i give the command: tclsh...
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:33:14 -0600 ... Hi Chuck, Sorry for the 'Usage' of this script is not clear. You should do: tclsh abcmaddidx.tcl abcm2ps_output_file.ps...
Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Feb 8, 2009 7:53 pm
1559
Many thanks. I should read more carefully. It did say post processing and I ignored it! It works fine when properly used :-> Chuck Boody...
Hi Remo, I would strongly suggest that only '::' be treated as a special case equivalent to :||: (I'd prefer to disallow it also, but 1) it has some current ...
... left! Hi, Frank! Some of us have wondered where you disappeared to. ;-) ... Well, I'd question that. I noticed the comment that most of the tunes have...
I checked a handful of the tunes. Not all had chords. Those that did were universally suspect in the harmonization. Truly bad sometimes and just clumsy...
Thanks Wil. I see what you mean and I agree that the use of "colons only" bars should be discouraged but, as you pointed out already, they are already in use. ...
My apologies, I just re-read the 2.0 standard ad ".|" is a "dotted bar" not an "invisible bar"! So, in the previous messages, consider "abcBarInvisible()" to...
Hello Remo, It is nice to know that ABCp development is active again. abcm2ps accepts yet another barline: ']' is used to mark the end of a repeat section, and...
... Thanks! I hope to manage to make it a little bit forward this time. ... I added ']' as an invisible bar. Now the abcdump example prints: "BAR: (invisible)...
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