You might find that yaps works better for you here. Yaps should change
fonts instantly when it sees 'vocalfont', but abc2ps works by pre-loading
fonts (at least, that was the impression I got from the documentation).
James Allwright
On Sun 18 Mar 2001 at 08:01AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
> Is there a way, in abc2ps or any relative, to have some lyrics in
> italics and others normal? I'm typesetting a piece with latin words
> mixed with English words, and want the latin ones in italic. When I
> say:
>
> z2 D2 D2 D2 D4
> w:When o- thers sings
> %%vocalfont Times-Italic 13.0
> D2 G4 B2 A3 A G2 G2 |
> w:Ve- ni- te ex- al- te- mus,
> %%vocalfont Times-Bold 13.0
> z2 E2 E2
> w:stand by
>
> I don't get any error messages, but I don't get italics, either. (In
> abctab2ps.)
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