Jean-Charles writes:
I've got some hard times with the header configuration, (displaying some
differents fields). Could someone send me an educational header.tex file,
or its own one ?
I'll send one off-list, but there are a couple of comments of
(slightly) more general interest to make, and it's a good excuse to
insinuate some pleas that someone think about cloning abc2mtex.
There is a limitation on header fields you can use---abc2mtex
keeps track of some, but not all, of them. As far as I can tell, it
records X, T, (and a couple of secondary titles, Ta and Tb) S, A, C, N, P,
and W. You can use any of these from header.tex (or other included file)
or even directly in the abc, by e.g. \Sstring. (See the header.tex file.)
But you can't use R or Z, for instance.
It might be a matter of just changing a couple of lines in the
program to make more fields available. But then...it might take more.
Does anybody know?
In a later email:
I don't know wether Daniel Taupin version of MusiXTeX is known as
Andreas Eaglers' in index.tex and then I don't know if I have to
uncomment the lines (thought it seems to be better not to uncomment : it
can't find musixsig.tex and I gess it should have been in my
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/musixtex directory).
I also wonder if musixtex installation is allright (tough it's from a
rpm package) because i've got many problems :
music isn't right justified, though it should be with musiXtex ;
Q:3/8=120 is printed8th note = 3 ;
Perhaps you mean header.tex instead of index.tex? There are two
versions of MusixTeX, one by Andreas Egler, and the other by Daniel
Taupin. You evidently have Taupin's version---so don't uncomment the
lines.
For right justification: did you tex it twice? You have to tex it
once, then run musixflx, then tex it again. It *should* come out
well-spaced and justified. (N.B. best remove the *.mx* files before doing
this---musixtex is likely to get confused between the old and new ones if
you don't, but not nearly as confused as you'll be when you try to make
sense of the resulting error messages...)
I think the 3/8=120 problem is a just bug in abc2mtex--again, probably
easy to fixfor someone to whom such things are easy...
(Which is not me---my shaky knowledge of C---or any other
programming language---doesn't extend to reading other people's code.
But if anybody would care to figure out what does what in abc2mtex, I'd be
very happy to help with the MuxiXTeX side of it.)
Here's an ugly workaround for it. In your abc file, delete the Q:
field entirely, and, right after the K: field: type a bar line (|), and,
alone on a new line, type \notes\Uptext{\metron{\qup}{120}}\enotes.
Then start the abc on the following line. (You'll have to experiment---I
found I had to type some abc first, or else the metronome marking would
show up below the staff (!) and the barline seemed fairly innocuous. As I
said, it's ugly. Of course, you can leave the Q: line in, search for
\metron in the music.tex file that abc2mtex generates, and just replace
replace \qu or \cu with \qup. This'll give you the output you
expect.)
Cheers,
John Walsh
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