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> | As an Abc2Win user, I can't get satisfactory printouts of multi-voice music,
> | but for AbcMIDI and ABCMidifier playback I usually put in a line like %%MIDI
> | transpose -12 or %%MIDI transpose -24, and then use the normal C-B,c-b with
> | as few commas as possible. -12 gives G, on the bottom line of the base stave
> | and A on top, -24 gives G and a.
> |
> | I haven't put any on the web, would it cause your tunefinder any problems if
> | I did post them like that?
>
> This shouln't cause any problems at all. The Tune Finder uses abc2ps
> for all of its output formats except MIDI, and abc2ps currently uses
> the "higher" notation with the bass clef mapped to G-f. The %%MIDI
> lines will simply be ignored, unless you ask for MIDI. It uses
> abc2midi for that, and I haven't checked how it handles V line yet.
> Maybe I should.
>
> One of the projects that I have in my TODO file is to augment the
> code in abc2ps to handle the other mappings of letters to the staff.
> I'm looking at implementing the middle= clause, and also adding the
> heuristic to count the commas to try to determine what mapping was
> used, and automagically transpose the voice to put most of the notes
> on the staff. It's a bother, of course, but it looks like it'll have
> to be done if the variants are to be usable from the Tune Finder.
>
> One of the interesting things about something like my Tune Finder is
> that it inherently need to deal with whatever passes for ABC that it
> finds on the Web. Grumbling about things like standard violations may
> be fun, but it doesn't make things work; only code that is "liberal
> in what it accepts" does the job.
>
> The main problem, actually, is finding and making sense of what's out
> there. So I'd encourage you to put whatever ABC files you have on the
> Web (and send me the URL). It would help a lot if the files have
> comments saying what program generated them. I often wish that ABC
> had a standard header line for this. Some programs use % lines for
> the information, but no two of them use the same format, so it's hard
> to write a pattern to match them. (ABC2Win seems to put its % id line
> outside the tune, after the blank line, so that software doesn't see
> it as part of the tune. Grumble...)
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