Here is some more feedback that Guido sent me earlier this year on the same
topic:
> I'm trying to print drum parts. Is there a way to convert and print with
> abcm2ps or do you know how it can be done? Drummers do not like standard
> notation.
I know, you drummers use those funny-shaped notes. In theory it should be
simple to tell abcm2ps that voice "Drum" uses, say, diamond-shaped notes or
whatever. As of current version though, this feature hasn't been
implemented.
AFAIK, no ABC application supports non-standard notation. However, I'm
pretty confident that Jean-Francois will add this feature in some future
release of abcm2ps. Try and ask him politely to consider a V: extension
such
as:
V: Drum name="Drum" noteshape="square"
Alternatively, you might consider purchasing Melody Assistant that is
inexpensive, reads and writes ABC, and supports non-standard notation.
Ciao,
Guido =8-)
Wil Macaulay
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11/15/02 12:22 PM
Please respond to
abcusers
another way to approach this is to have a special keysig or clef for drum
notation - just
as K:HP is supposed to draw notes in highland pipes style (all stems up,
gracenotes beamed
together, default gracenote have 2 flags, if I recall correctly), then
something like
K:drum could draw note heads as 'x'...
wil
John Chambers wrote:
> Toby writes:
> | You could always use liquid paper, white-out the notes heads and
redraw
> | them in as X's with a sharpie permanent marker.. Ha..Ha..
> |
> | > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Christopher Myers wrote:
> | >> 1) Can I use an "X" for a note head?
>
> Yeah. Actually, this subject has been mentioned before,
> along with the more general idea of other kinds of note
> heads for things like shaped-note music.
>
> It's too bad that 'x' has already been pre-empted for a
> kind of rest; it would be ideal for an ornament prefix
> saying to draw the next note head as an 'x'.
>
> This is probably the best way in general to handle such
> things. Maybe we could use 'X' (capital) for this ornament.
>
> The problem with this is the growing list of specialized
> ornaments that only work on one or two abc programs, with
> the same letter being used for different ornaments.
>
> We could visit the macro debate again, so that we could
> define a !cross-note-head! symbol and agree on a way that a
> user could map 'X' or 'p' or whatever to !cross-note-head!.
> But so far, this discussion seems to lead to an attempt to
> solve all the world's macro-definition problems. As a
> result we don't get agreement on how to define a simple
> text-substitution in a way that it is actually usable by a
> mere human.
>
> I've been tempted to do something like this in my own
> abc2ps clone. The main barrier so far is that I can't make
> any sense out of the discussion, so I don't have many clues
> as to what the actual syntax might be that people want. It
> helps if implementers can actually understand what they are
> expected to implement, and so far this hasn't happened with
> this topic.
>
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