... I think the best approach is the TeX way, where each symbol has three associated spacing values - max, optimum, and min. The spacings for a line as...
Calum Galleitch
abc@...
Jun 1, 2007 9:40 am
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Hello, ... Yes, very good suggestion, I forgot this use of spaces in abc. Thanks a lot for your long answer Phil, Cheers, Lionel....
... I use my wife's program to do this - ABCeditor from http://www.alfwarnock.info/alfs/links.php. It's a Windows program. It creates the cheat sheets from an...
Martin> I have installed abcm2ps and abcMIDI and also Lilypond on Martin> my system. I agree: ABC is easier, Lilypond might be Martin> better in handling very...
Lilypond looks great on paper.I just never could get it into my head or understand the forum. The more I discover abc the more I use it. Great work Laura. It...
... Martin> I have installed abcm2ps and abcMIDI and also Lilypond on Martin> my system. I agree: ABC is easier, Lilypond might be Martin> better in handling...
... They came through OK for me. Interesting comparison, although it might have been better if the staff height was the same in both. The Lilypond output...
... Phil> They came through OK for me. Interesting comparison, Phil> although it might have been better if the staff height was Phil> the same in both. If...
... [...] ... [...] In those examples, abcm2ps takes in account the original layout defined in ABC source, while lilypond does all the formatting by itself. A...
... I'll explain: The sources for MUP are freely available for download. But if you compile it yourself, or if you try the ready-to-use binaries, you will...
Martin Tarenskeen
m.tarenskeen@...
Jun 1, 2007 10:44 pm
888
Thanks Alf: I think that will help me quite alot. Cheers, Ben...
Phil Taylor & Hudson have already answered your question. They have each been helpful in getting me up to speed on abc. When you talk about tweaking the file...
... MusiKatz> Phil Taylor & Hudson have already answered your MusiKatz> question. They have each been helpful in getting me up MusiKatz> to speed on abc....
Sorry I should have said what I would change in the abc text. I always use beaming when it is called for. I do not understand why you would not - even in the...
I have been looking up musical fonts & am wondering if they can be used in an abc to postscript application. I have Abcedit & use the layout tab for changing...
I use software that has *.fmt files where fonts and other parameters are set. You can edit the *.fmt files to use almost any fonts. Keep backups in case the...
Thanks Richard AbcEdit is a front-end for abcm2ps. Unfortunately I am not an advanced user & do not know how to run abcm2ps directly. In setting the fonts you...
... abcm2ps (as well as abc2ps and other ABC music typesetters) don't use fonts for musical symbols, but PostScript operators instead. It is indeeed feasible...
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:23:00 -0400, Laura Conrad <lconrad@...> ... [snip] Here is the sample example with abcm2ps-5.4.2. I just add some reverse ...
Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Jun 3, 2007 4:30 pm
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... Does anyone know a way to change the space given to gracenotes? I cant find a pseudo-comment option that affects only gracenotes; unfortunately I'm not a...
... I noticed that the grace notes are too spaced when there are multiple voices. But the spacing looks OK when there is only one voice. X:1 K:C V:1 {a}gg...
... I noticed that the grace notes are too spaced when there are multiple voices. But the spacing looks OK when there is only one voice. X:1 K:C V:1 {a}gg...
Hi, First of all, sorry, my previous mail had nothing (except for what Hudson had sent) in it. Anyway, I'd meant to say that I tend to use the %%alignbars...
I have a question on the finer points of abc syntax: If you have a dotted/broken/hornpipe rythm, using > or < to lengthen one note and shorten the other, and...
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