| Robert Bley-Vroman wrote-
|
| >I produce output for printing on 4"x6" cards using abc4mac. I
| >use a format file (specified with -F in the command line). Here,
| >for example, is the format file I use for my own needs. It may
| >be different from yours, since I'm primarily interested in
| >seeing the chords: the notes are small and the chords are big
| >and clear. This is set up for landscape, because of the way the
| >cards are fed into the printer.
|
| Wow. This looks like something I can really use here, but I'm still
| confused: How do you use the format file? Is it part of the abc file
| or somehow entered from within abc4mac?
The .fmt files seem to have originated with abc2ps. I wonder how many
other programs have copied this scheme? It does have a certain amount
of usefulness. Learning about all the formatting parameters and how
to use them can be tricky. I did put together a start on a document a
while ago:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc/abc2ps_fmt.html
This is still a bit sketchy and not organized as well as I'd like it.
The order of the table is what came out of "abc2ps -H" on this
machine. It might be useful to figure out what all these really do,
and maybe see what programs implement which of them. In particular,
I'm a bit fuzzy on just how fonts get defined, and how printers
decide which of them to honor and how.
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