Hi Chris, It was me that pointed you to abcm2ps from rmf.
When we started folkinfo a few months ago, we wanted a simple means of storing tunes together with songs in a database and to be able to produce the songs/tunes in a variety of formats, i.e. MIDI, a graphic format (we use png and a pdf of the whole song for printing - we just add the words to the from the lyric field as W:s to the abc before running abcm2ps/ghostscript. Abc seemed ideal for the task (as well as bieng a wothwhile format in its own rights) and judging from the comments I had read elsewhere I'd not (subscribed here at that point), abcm2ps did sound as if it was better with its handling of lyrics that abc2ps which was why I used it. I think, where we have found different output, say compared to concertina.net which runs abc2ps, abcm2ps has proved to be adhering, at least by our understanding, to standards but I'm still not sure what the others offer. Jon -------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 3:08 AM Subject: Re: [abcusers] abc2ps clones > My two cents: > > From my limited experience (the better part of two weeks), > I started with yaps, because I was originally only trying to listen to > abc files, and yaps came with the abcmidi package (from sourceforge). > Yaps did a nice job rendering abc's into ps, but I had some problems > with multiple voices, specifically with getting the bar lines to > continue through both staves in a 2-voice piece. Next I tried abc2ps, > which was better for some things, but not others. Here's a copy from my > recent posting to the rec.music.folk newsgroup: > > I downloaded the abcmidi package, and am very pleased with how yaps > generates output for single melody line tunes. However, I've been > having problems with multi-voiced tunes when generating ps files. > Basically, I'm torn between using yaps and abc2ps, since they both do > part of what I want, but neither does everything I want. > > yaps (comes with the abc2midi package) nicely handles multiple voices > (i.e. "Fife 1" and "Fife 2") as far as being able to separate them, > and line them up nicely in printed form. The problem here is I can't > get yaps to make the bar lines continue through both parts -- the only > place there is a continuous bar line for both parts is at the > beginning of each group of staves. > > abc2ps handles this nicely -- all you have to do is put the parameter > "stv=2" in the V: line when you first define the voices, and it works > fine. > The problem with abc2ps (this may or may not be true) is that I can't > make it respect my P: notation (e.g. Parts A and B for playing a tune > in AABB format). Actually, having V: and P: together in the same tune > completely hoses both attempts. > > Also: > yaps blindly and faithfully respects my line breaks, which I like. > abc2ps seems to do only what it wants to do with my line breaks > (again, maybe I'm wrong here, too), which sometimes yields output I > don't like, e.g. one measure on the final staff. > > > > I was eventually pointed to abcm2ps, which took care of all my > problems. However, now I'm trying to do weirder stuff that apparently > neither program can handle. Someone else pointed me to MUP, but it's a > non-abc input format. > > My two cents. Give me change if I deserve it. > > -Chris > > Jon Freeman wrote: > > > > John Chambers wrote: > > > > > Actually, if you're using an abc2ps clone, there are > > > several pseudocomments that will work. > > > > There is abc2ps and there seem to be a few clones (abcm2ps, jabc2ps, yaps, > > and I guess more). What are the merits of each? > > > > Jon > > > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > > -- > Christopher Myers, Graduate Software Developer > Ingenta, Inc. > 12 Bassett St. > Providence, RI 02903 > ph: 401.331.2014 x 102 > em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > aim: chrismyers001 > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
