>The only part of ABC that I could see that would affect how "cramped"
>together a peice of music would look in staff notation is the length of
>individual lines. Most ABC to Staff converters I know of do not break
>lines of ABC into multiple lines of staff notation. Obviously, the same
>piece of music is going to look more cramped if written as 2 lines of 8
>measures than 4 lines of 4 measures.
>
If you check out the documentation to abc2ps, you'll find a number
of ways to control the note spacing--it recommends putting well-chosen
linebreaks in the abc, but that can be overridden, and there are a couple
of parameters that can be adjusted and some command-line options, e.g.
one can specify the number of bars per line.
One possibility which I have found useful elsewhere, and which
might be worthwhile adding, is to specify the total number of lines for a
tune, leaving the line-breaking decisions to the program. (I have
absolutely no idea how easy/difficult this is.)
Cheers,
John Walsh
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