Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-27 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
On 24 Jun 2003 22:37:23 -0400, Christopher Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean-Francois, Hello Chris, [snip] BTW, I'm using abcm2ps-2.11.3 (May 5, 2002) if that makes any difference. [snip] It makes! Annotations work correctly starting from version 3.5.0. About deco.abc, in

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-25 Thread John Chambers
Chris comments: | Jean-Francois, | | I just got around to trying out your suggestion below for enclosing a | note in parentheses: | | | Yes, you may use annotations: | | ()A | | And it doesn't work. Instead of getting a note in parentheses, what I | get is a guitar chord that looks like

Re: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-25 Thread chrismyers
, guitar chords, vocal music, etc. Chris comments: | Jean-Francois, | | I just got around to trying out your suggestion below for enclosing a | note in parentheses: | | | Yes, you may use annotations: | |()A | | And it doesn't work. Instead of getting a note in parentheses, what

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-25 Thread MCPearce0
Using "("")"G with abcm2ps 3.3.1 actually produces something like: ( ) to the left of the note, seemingly taking the string after as a unit and ignoring the middle quotes. This does more or less accord with the 1.7.6 version of abc which says (in the copy from Chris Walshaw's site some months

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher Myers
Jean-Francois, I just got around to trying out your suggestion below for enclosing a note in parentheses: Yes, you may use annotations: ()A And it doesn't work. Instead of getting a note in parentheses, what I get is a guitar chord that looks like this: ( ) The program does not

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-18 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:32:45 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] (NOTE - using abcm2ps) Problem 1: As far as I can tell, you can only align chords with actual notes. This is a problem for me. Suppose I have a measure that looks like this (M:C, L:1/4) E/D/ C3 and I want guitar

Re: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread chrismyers
How about AmE/D/ C-CC2 ? This would also be clearer to read for the accompanist, and it doesn't violate the guideline that the third beat of a bar in common time should be visibly delineated (ie beat two shouldn't be a dotted minim!) This is a real guideline? I've never heard

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread MCPearce0
How about "Am"E/D/ C-"C"C2 ? This would also be clearer to read for the accompanist, and it doesn't violate the guideline that the third beat of a bar in common time should be visibly delineated (ie beat two shouldn't be a dotted minim!) This is a real "guideline"? I've never

Re: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread chrismyers
chords, vocal music, etc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Problem 1: As far as I can tell, you can only align chords with actual notes. This is a problem for me. Suppose I have a measure that looks like this (M:C, L:1/4) E/D/ C3 and I want guitar chords to change on beats 1

[abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-15 Thread chrismyers
OK, I know I've seen some stuff on this before, but searching the archive didn't help, so here goes. I recently tried something new (at least for me), and I'm looking for a little advice. My wife came back from her voice lesson with a HIDEOUSLY transcribed jazz vocal piece, with just a melody