Andrew,
For issue 1, you're abusing the guitar chord syntax. Use the real tuplet sytax and let the typesetter handle the triplet marking. I.e. use
|: {g}e (3d/c/B/)A {gef}e2 a | {ef}e (3d/c/B/)A {gef}e2 a | {fg}fdB
adB | {g}fdB {g}fga |
\
For issue 2, it's just a matter of the typesetting conventions used by each program. To my knowledge, abcm2ps doesn't have a code switch to control that. You'd probably have to modify the code that processes the beaming information.
For issue 3, the added text starts with a caret "^" symbol. Abcm2ps might be choking on that and ignoring the rest of the quoted text. (I don't happen to have it loaded on the machine I'm using for this email, so I can't check it). Abc2ps used to have a verbose mode which helps for these kind of things, but unfortunately I think Jef took that out of abcm2ps. Hopefully he'll see this post and could say for sure.
For issue 4, there was some discussion a long time ago about handling duration markings on gracenotes. It's not in the abc spec, and to my knowledge none of the available abc software implements it. Yes, this would be useful for bagpipe music, but I've only seen that in piobreachd (for you non-pipers, that's "classical music" in the GHB world) and I doubt you need it for pipeband scores.
Eric
On Jul 20, 2004, at 9:33 PM, Andrew T. Lenz, Jr. wrote:
Hello everyone!
I'm currently trying to unify the appearance of our bagpipe band sheet
music using abcm2ps (v3.7.18, under Mac OS X)---lots of different music books!
I've run into problems I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping for some work-arounds.
============================================== ISSUE 1:
Here's the FIRST file:
%%straightflags 1 %%flatbeams 1 %%titlefont Helvetica-Bold 20 %%landscape 1
X: 1 T: Keelman O'er the Land C: Traditional, Arr. Gordon Mooney N: M: 6/8 L: 1/8 K: HP \ |: {g}e (d/"3"c/B/)A {gef}e2 a | {ef}e (d/"3"c/B/)A {gef}e2 a | {fg}fdB adB | {g}fdB {g}fga | \ | {ef}ecA {g}ABc | {g}caf {g}ecA | {g}B/c/d/c/B {g}c/d/e/d/c | {g}f2 e {g}fga :| [***rest of file removed***]
PROBLEM: triplets in the first line. The first one works fine, that is, it places a "3" above the arch, the second, however, the "3" appears over the ef gracenotes! (Seems buggy to me.)
We don't want the number UNDER the triplets.
Is there a better way of getting numbers over the triplets?
============================================== ISSUE 2:
Here's the SECOND file:
%%straightflags 1 %%flatbeams 1 %%titlefont Helvetica-Bold 20 %%landscape 0 %%scale 0.65
X: 1 T: Major Manson's Farewell to Clachantrushal C: PM D. MacLean N: Composed when a POW during the 1939 - 45 War M: 2/4 % Q: 1/4 = 70 R: March L: 1/8 K: HP \ |: {g}A/>B/ | {GdG}c2 {gBd}B{e}A/>{d}c/ | {gef}e{g}A/>B/ {gcd}ca/>f/ | {gef}e{g}A/>{d}c/ {g}f/>e/{g}c/<{d}A/ | {g}c/<e/a/>c/ {gdB}B{g}A/>B/ | \ | {GdG}c2 {gBd}B{e}A/>{d}c/ | {gef}e{g}A/>B/ {gcd}c{g}B/<{d}A/ | {g}c/<e/a/>f/ {gef}e/>c/{g}B/<{d}c/ | {g}c<{G}A {GAG}A :| [***rest of file removed***]
PROBLEM: Bar linking 1/16th notes is split. {g}f/>e/{g}c/<{d}A/
Here the first two (non-grace) notes are tied by a 1/16 bar and the second two are tied also, BUT, between the e and the c, the 1/16th bar is missing, that is, they are tied together by only the eighth note single bar.
In other words, BarFly draws all four notes with a double line (1/16) in
the backbone of the beam, and draws an extra line between the middle two
notes to indicate that they're 1/32. abcm2ps draws a single line
through all four, a double line for the outer pairs and two little flags
pointing outwards on the middle notes.
Is there a way to get abcm2ps to do it the Barfly way, which we think is
more readable?
============================================== ISSUE 3:
Here's the THIRD file:
%%straightflags 1 %%flatbeams 1 %%titlefont Helvetica-Bold 20 %%landscape 0
X: 1
T: Sandy's New Chanter
R: Reel
C: PM Tom MacAllister Jr.
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: HP
\
ag |: {g}f2 {g}ef {g}fA{g}df | {gf}g2 {a}fg {aBG}B2 {gf}g2 | {a}fA{g}df
{g}faga | eA{g}ce {g}eage |
\
| "^2nd Time 2nd Part" {g}f2 {g}ef {g}fA{g}df | {gf}g2 {a}fg {aBG}B2
{gf}g2 | {a}fA{g}df {g}eA{g}ce |1 {Gdc}d4 {gdG}d2 ag :|2 {Gdc}d4 {gdG}d2
A2 |
[***rest of file removed***]
PROBLEM: The added text "2nd Time 2nd Part" doesn't appear in the generated Postscript file. I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be supported by abcm2ps, but maybe I'm wrong.
??
============================================== ISSUE 4:
Given a series of three gracenotes, is it possible to make the center gracenote be appear as a 16th note instead of the standard 32nd?
(This may be weird for the rest of the world, but it has its applications in certain types of bagpipe music.)
==============================================
Can anyone help me out with these?
Thanks!
Andrew
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Andrew T. Lenz, Jr.
www.BagpipeJourney.com
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Santa Cruz, California USA
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