Laura Conrad writes:
> John> For my money, the MusixTeX output is as good as or better
> John> than abc2ps, and you can do a lot more with the formatting.
> John> There's no problem producing PS or EPS files from it.
>
>Has anyone done anything about adding w: or V: fields to abc2mtex? I
>agree with this statement, but I do very little that doesn't use one
>or the other or both.
>
I don't believe so. I think Chris was originally waiting until
MusixTeX settled down to add to abc2mtex (MusixTeX was changing so
fast at one time that it was like hitting a moving target. Now that it has
settled down, I'm hoping that he or some other kind soul will bring
the program up to date as part of the Source Forge project. (MusixTeX
has support for multiple staffs, voices, and lyrics, so they're there
for abc2mtex to use. They're a bit tricky tho, so it might take some
figuring out to actually implement them.) At any rate, it would be a
pity for such a powerful program to be allowed to languish.
On that subject, MusixTeX seems to be all too settled these days.
Does anyone know if Daniel Taupin is still working on it? I took a quick
look at some files in CTAN, and the latest seemed to be ca 1996.
By the way, the tilde (~) is used by TeX in about the same way as
by abc2ps---i.e. as a non-printing space---tho it also has some other
functions, such as preventing unwanted line-breaks in certain
situations.
Cheers,
John Walsh
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