Laura wrote:
>I don't know anything about abc4mac, but it looks like some
>members of the abc2ps family will let you say, within the ABC
>file:
>
>E:lw <number>
>
>where number is the number of points to set the line width to. I
>believe that there are 72 points in an inch, so try
>
> E:lw 468
Thanks! This looks promising. Now knowing what to look for, I
found this in the abc2ps documentation (ReadMe.abc2ps) that comes
with abc4mac:
|Field E: this field can be used to set some parameters from
|within the file:
|
| shrink set glue mode to compress
| space set to natural glue widths
| stretch stretched glue mode
| fill normal mode to fill staffs
| break ignore continuations
| xref write xref numbers to output
| one write one tune per page.
| newpage start new page for next tune
| lw ppp set local staff width to ppp points.
|
|For example, to output a single tune in a narrower format,
|put 'E:lw 400' into the header of this tune. If this is put
|after the header but within the tune body, only the music is set
|with a different width and the title is written as before.
So I tried it. I can't get it to work. I fed the following abc
through abc4mac:
X:1
E:lw 360 % 5 inches
T:Line width test 360 in header
M:C
K:C
CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|]
X:2
T:Line width test 360 in music
M:C
K:C
E:lw 360 % 5 inches
CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|]
X:3
E:lw 504 % 7 inches
T:Line width test 504 in header
M:C
K:C
CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|]
X:4
T:Line width test 504 in music
M:C
K:C
E:lw 504 % 7 inches
CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|CDEF GABc|]
I displayed the resulting ps file in MacGSView at 100% size. All
four "tunes" appeared identical and had a staff width of 493 pt
(6.85 inches). This, unfortunately, is not close enough to 6.5"
to satisfy the needs of my project.
Any other ideas? Or does anybody see what I did wrong?
If I can't find a "right" way to do it, I have a plan: I have
staves 493 pt long and I want them 468 pt long. 468/493 = a little
less than 95%. I'll call it 94% to err on the short side. So I
will save the ps files as bitmaps at 300dpi * 0.94 = 282 dpi and
then shrink them to 94% size (I know, it's essentially Phil's
suggestion from a few days ago). The text will be smaller than I'd
like, but while I'm in a graphics program, I might re-enter it in
a slightly larger font. The notation itself probably won't suffer
from the reduction to 94%.
Thanks again to all who have provided suggestions and all the rest
who patiently read these questions.
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