Thanks to everyone who give some good advices for
displaying multible voices on one staff. The command
"%%staves 1 (2 3)" worked well with abcm2ps.
I thought I could be good to propose new features in
the abc format, for example, in the brackets for the
chords [], we could have symbolised different levels
with subdivisions of [] or (). But this would not
preserve compatibility with older software. ex :
V:2
[G2e2] [ce] [B2g2] [Af] | [A2e2][ce] [G3d3] :|
V:3
C>B,C G,2 D | A,>B,C G,3 :|
||
||
||
\ /
\/
V:2
[G2e2[C>B,]] [ce[C]] [B2g2G,2] [AfD] |
[A2e2[A,>B,]][ceC] [G3d3G,3] :|
So I guess the future improvements of ABC should be
with commands such as %%staves 1 (2 3 4) etc., which
begin with %% that are not annoying for older
softwares. The problem with those commands is that
there is still no official standard yet. It could be
good to have an ABC draft with the most common ones
(like !trill! or !fine!, but for the improvements in
such programs like abc2ps or yaps). To be honest, I
had not tryied in deep abcm2ps because I thought the
rendering was not better than abc2ps, but if it has
some nice features, I'll cast a second glance on it.
Concerning the problem of (homemade) compiled
c-sources, programmers should admit that it is not
easy for people new in computers to make it self (it's
not a criticism, I need the good work of programmers,
because I know so little on programming). The
advantage with unix (and unlike Window$) is that it
stimulates the user to make him think and improve his
knowledge. I've tryied linux, but still can't throw
away windo$$$s (unfortunatly), and I use abc on
windows right now. That's right, in order to use ABC
correctly, one have to download ghostscrip, ghostview,
and even a TeX package. I wanted to try Abcm2ps, so I
downloaded cygwin, and it was quite easy (and rather
fun :) ) to compile the source code, but I guess the
average computer user can't do all that.
Christophe Declercq spoke about uploding on a website
a binary version of Abcm2ps, I can do that on my own
website.
I have the one I compiled, but since I used cygwin,
one need cygwin1.dll in order to make it work. IS
THERE a special command, during the compilation, in
cygwin that could "include" this dll in the binary ?
I've tryed to compile the source with Borland Bcc
(free) compiler, but still don't have the necessary
knowledge for that, so Christophe could send me his
binary as well. I could add a batch file and
explainations to help people using this without
problem.
Greetings.
Eric.
http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/ (updated 7/10/2001)
ps :
Til Frank Nordberg :
>By coincidence I visited your site earlier today and
have to say your
>work is really admireable :-)
Tusen takk, i like maate : Jeg har bes�kt hjemmesiden
din ogsaa i fjor, og funnet mange gode laater aa laste
ned der.
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