>>>>> "Christophe" == Christophe Declercq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christophe> The %%%begintext (obeylines|ragged|align) and
Christophe> %%endtext pseudocomments are easy to use for simple
Christophe> things. But, abc2mTeX and LaTeX would be better for
Christophe> serious things. The inconveniences are that abc2mTeX
Christophe> needs an update and that MusixTeX uses type III fonts
Christophe> which render very badly in Acrobat Reader if you want
Christophe> pdf.
The type III font problem is mostly a problem with screen display and
not with printing, so I haven't been worrying about it that much. And
I think it's been addressed somewhat in more recent versions of
ghostscript.
John Walsh and I are looking at what needs to be done to abc2mtex, and
it looks like lyrics and voices may be doable with a reasonable amount
of effort. I'll post some cobbled-up examples soon.
Christophe> I am not that litterate in LaTeX but perhaps there is
Christophe> a place for a LaTeX package which could allow to enter
Christophe> abc directly embedded in a LaTeX source within an abc
Christophe> environment and turning it in an eps file with abc2ps
Christophe> and a \includegraphics instruction at compile time.
Christophe> Do you think it would be a right track, Laura?
The problem with the eps route (which is essentially what I've been
using for my "publications") is that an eps file is limited to one
page. So I have to do all the page breaking by hand, and obviously it
would be better to have TeX do it. I think some kind of preprocessor
that turns the ABC into musixtex code which is included in the Latex
would be a better way to go.
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