Tablature 1. Muse supports ABC to fretted instrument tab generation by giving string information after the duration, using a semicolon to delimit it. e.g. E2;4 Play E for 2 time units on string number 4. On the whole it's only necessary to give this information for a few notes, the rest can be interpolated. I have no idea how abctab2ps represents this information and you didn't say, but I'd guess this is fundamental. Where there is no explicit string information, Muse just tries to do something sensible (it enumerates all possible fingerings for the whole piece and selects the one with the lowest difficulty score).
Clefs Muse supports treble (G glef, G above middle C on 2nd line up), alto (C middle C on middle line), tenor (middle C on 2nd line down) and bass (F below middle C on 2nd line down). Muse also supports what I think might be a soprano clef (looks like treble clef but 8ve written above the staff and plays an octave above treble clef) and can likewise play transposed an octave down (8ve written below staff). In fact Muse can play transposed by just about any amount. Muse also supports independently transposing of guitar chords (so you can have music written for clarinet accompanied by guitar with capo on 2nd fret. The chords will play a tone up and the tadpoles a tone down! This is currently indicated by ABC with the K: command, but it would be easy to move it to V: or to come new command so long as the syntax didn't change. The syntax is based on comma separated sets of keyword=value e.g. K: clef=bass, transpose=12 Laurie To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
