On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 09:54:50 +0000, Jack Campin wrote:

JC> > On another note...  I'm trying to print a 5-voice piece of music using
JC> > yaps.  I would like four voices to share two staves -- two on one
JC> > staff, two on another, the fifth on it's own staff.  The source I'm
JC> > transcribing this from has that format, with voice indicated by stem
JC> > directon, and it will allow me more room on the page for lyrics and
JC> > notes (also to be embedded in the abc file).  There doesn't seem to be
JC> > anything clear in the yaps documentation available to me that would
JC> > describe how to do that.
JC> >
JC> > Is there any way to do what I want using yaps?  In any other
JC> > abc-to-sheet-music converter (abc2mtex, etc?)
JC>
JC> This is easy in BarFly.  The header would include lines like this, where
JC> "merge" means "put the notes in this voice into the same staff as the
JC> previous one" with "up" and "down" to say which way the noteheads go:
JC>
JC>    V:1       up
JC>    V:2 merge down
JC>    V:3 transpose -12       up
JC>    V:4 transpose -12 merge down
JC>    V:5 bass
JC>


It's possible in abcm2ps as well and would look in the following way:

%%staves (S A) (T B) B2
V:S clef=treble
V:A clef=treble
V:T clef=bass
V:B clef=bass
V:B2 clef=bass

Greetings,
Markus 


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