... 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...
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lionel.gueganton
lionel.guega...
Jun 1, 2007 12:06 pm
Hello, ... Yes, very good suggestion, I forgot this use of spaces in abc. Thanks a lot for your long answer Phil, Cheers, Lionel....
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Alf Warnock
alfwarnock
Jun 1, 2007 12:47 pm
... 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...
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Laura Conrad
laymusic
Jun 1, 2007 2:51 pm
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...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Jun 1, 2007 3:36 pm
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...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Jun 1, 2007 3:39 pm
Is it different from the example?...
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Laura Conrad
laymusic
Jun 1, 2007 3:44 pm
... 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...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Jun 1, 2007 4:09 pm
Are you starting with abc text & converting to lilypond? I would have done the abc differently. Cheers, Auburn ... looks better....
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Phil Taylor
carpedestria
Jun 1, 2007 4:21 pm
... 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...
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Laura Conrad
laymusic
Jun 1, 2007 5:37 pm
... MusiKatz> Are you starting with abc text & converting to lilypond? Yes. MusiKatz> I would have done the abc differently. In what way? -- Laura...
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Laura Conrad
laymusic
Jun 1, 2007 5:57 pm
... 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...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Jun 1, 2007 6:09 pm
... [...] ... [...] In those examples, abcm2ps takes in account the original layout defined in ABC source, while lilypond does all the formatting by itself. A...
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Alf Warnock
alfwarnock
Jun 1, 2007 7:22 pm
... Just a little bit. e.g. %%multicol start %%rightmargin 11.5cm %%leftmargin 1.5cm X: 1 T:Jimmy Batty's M:C| L:1/8 K:D dAAB AGFE|DFAB ADFA X: 2 T:Are You...
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Martin Tarenskeen
m.tarenskeen@...
Jun 1, 2007 10:44 pm
... 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...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Jun 1, 2007 11:05 pm
Thanks Alf: I think that will help me quite alot. Cheers, Ben...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Jun 1, 2007 11:36 pm
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...
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Laura Conrad
laymusic
Jun 2, 2007 12:01 am
... MusiKatz> Phil Taylor & Hudson have already answered your MusiKatz> question. They have each been helpful in getting me up MusiKatz> to speed on abc....
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Jun 2, 2007 1:42 am
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...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Jun 2, 2007 7:34 pm
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...
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Richard Walker
rlwalker2
Jun 2, 2007 9:14 pm
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...
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MusiKatz
mollysfavourite
Jun 2, 2007 11:01 pm
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...
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Roberto Tuninetti
mendofriul
Jun 2, 2007 11:51 pm
Hi guys!!! I learned that more elements you take in consideration, you can decide better what to do with them. The dilema sometimes is how far we...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Jun 3, 2007 1:23 am
... 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...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Jun 3, 2007 4:30 pm
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 ...
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David Prior
davidcalumsw...
Jun 3, 2007 10:22 pm
... 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...
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Roberto Tuninetti
mendofriul
Jun 3, 2007 10:32 pm
There is a simple but interesting document about basic note stems length/position and other musical notation elements. ...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Jun 3, 2007 10:39 pm
... 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...
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David Prior
davidcalumsw...
Jun 3, 2007 11:04 pm
... 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...
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David Prior
davidcalumsw...
Jun 3, 2007 11:08 pm
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...
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Paul Hardy
paulghardy
Jun 4, 2007 8:36 am
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...
