For anyone interested in updating the abc2mtex code
to include multistaff music, voices, and lyrics---or who is even vaguely
curious about the question: check out Source Forge, in
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/contrib/musixtex/?cvsroot=abc.
This contains a discussion of the problem of implementing V: and
w: for abc2mtex, some preliminary suggestions for algorithms, and a
collection of examples involving multi-staff/lyrics.
My feeling after doing this was that it looked quite hopeful,
tho probably challenging (nothing involving MusixTeX is a slam-dunk!)
and that one could even make a temporary workaround by writing a
pre-processor to the present version of abc2mtex.
The examples are given in both abc and MusixTeX code. The
musixTeX code is fairly heavily commented to make it accessible to someone
who knows a just a little about TeX and MusixTeX. (I make no claims about
the quality of the abcs---I was learning to use abcm2ps as I wrote
them---but the MusixTeX code is there to show what the music is supposed
to look like.) The abc uses the abcm2ps conventions on voices. Some of
the examples might be useful for abc test suites, quite apart from
abc2mtex.
The main file is multiv2.txt, which contains both the text and the
examples. The examples themselves are also in separate files. My thanks
to Laura Conrad for putting it on Source Forge.
Cheers,
John Walsh
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