Dear Jorge,
I am using abcm2ps 1.6.1 and abctab2ps 1.0.0.
abcm2ps now has the ability to print up to 3 voices per line and it works very well on
my
system (Atari TOS, I had to compile it on my own, but no changes had to be made).
If there are bugs, Jef Moine is very fast on replying and trying to fix them (nearly
every week there is an update).
abctab2ps bases an abc2ps 1.3.3 and can only handle 1 voice per line, but includes
lute
and guitar tabulature. It is still on the way, but it is working very confidental.
On the homepage of abctab2ps there is a real good online-userguide:
http://www.emsland-aktuell.com/lautengesellschaft/cdmm/userguide/userguide.html
A example of an orchestral partitur written by abc is on Chris Walshaws' homepage of
abc:
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/
Sincerely, Markus
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:14:31 -0500, John Henckel wrote:
JH> Jorge.
JH>
JH> I am using ABC to publish a hymnal and I have found it to be very
JH> convenient and adequate.
JH>
JH> I actually started by using LilyPond. However, I gave up on it because it
JH> was very difficult to customize, the source code is horrific. And LilyPond
JH> runs like a pig on Windows (very very slow and requires too much memory and
JH> disk space).
JH>
JH> For almost a year (maybe longer) there has been software that supports "V:"
JH> for multiple voices in ABC. Why are the "keepers of the standard" so
JH> sluggish about adopting V: ? It baffles me. That is the ONE bad thing
JH> about ABC.
JH>
JH> You can try an online demo of abcm2ps (with some modifications (and bugs)
JH> by me) at
JH>
JH> http://www.formulus.com/hymns/abc2gif.html
JH>
JH> Yes there is bass clef notation which automatically transposes two octaves
JH> down, see http://www.formulus.com/hymns/abcm2ps.txt
JH>
JH> You can create orchestral scores with a separate voice for each instrument
JH> and you can give names to the voices (like "violins" and "timpani") and you
JH> can do ANY kind of tuplet and slurs and ties (see
JH> http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm the "advanced bits")
JH>
JH> I am not sure about percussion music, with the funny note heads. I think
JH> abcm2ps can do that, but I haven't tried it.
JH>
JH> I must warn you about abcm2ps, though. I like it because I can make it do
JH> what I want by editing the source code (ANSI C) and recompiling it. If you
JH> are not a programmer, and you have very exact output requirements, then
JH> abcm2ps will probably be very frustrating.
JH>
JH> I hope my advice is helpful.
JH>
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