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> De : Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Christophe Declercq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > But, abc2mTeX and LaTeX would be better for serious things. The
> > inconveniences are that abc2mTeX needs an update and that MusixTeX
> > uses type III fonts which render very badly in Acrobat Reader if you
> > want pdf.
>
> Ghostscript 6 is a lot better at doing PS->PDF than earlier versions.
> I think abc2ps also uses Type 3 fonts, and PDF created from abc2ps
> output via gs 6.x actually looks much more reasonable on screen than
> it used to. I haven't used MusiXTeX in a long time so couldn't comment
> on its PDF output.
Actually, when I use the abc2mtex/MusixTeX route, I use pdfTeX which
directly produces pdf.
The problem is that MusixTeX use METAFONT fonts, so the resulting PDF is
fine to print but not so to watch on Acrobat Reader.
abc2ps doesn't use fonts for the music. It uses PostScript drawings for the
music and calls to the classic PS fonts for text. So, PDF from the
abc2ps->ps2pdf route are perfect (and of smaller size too).
>
> > I am not that litterate in LaTeX but perhaps there is a place for a
LaTeX
> > package which could allow to enter abc directly embedded in a LaTeX
source
> > within an abc environment and turning it in an eps file with abc2ps and
a
> > \includegraphics instruction at compile time.
>
> That would actually be reasonably straightforward to do. There are
> pre-cooked packages in LaTeX that will let you write the contents of
> something like
>
> \begin{abc}
> T:....
> ...
> abc def|...
> \end{abc}
>
> to a temporary file. At the same time you could write a shell script
> or makefile to run abc2ps on the abc files so you could pick up the
> output on the next LaTeX run. You can even get some LaTeX
> implementations (for example teTeX on Linux) to execute shell commands
> for you, but since this is a bit of a security hole (think ILOVEYOU)
> this must be separately enabled.
>
> As Christophe says, one could probably gut the �emp� package to figure
> out how to do this exactly. Actually, I quite like the idea. Would
> there be interest in an �abcinc� LaTeX package? If enough people want
> this I might be persuaded to work on such a beast and make it freely
> available.
>
You can count me in the people interested in that beast! Thanks for
considering it.
As Laura said, its use would be mainly for short (less than one page) tunes
but it would give all The LaTeX formatting power for tunebook preparation.
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> De : Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
> Give me abc2ps any day.
I'll agree with that.
Christophe
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