Martin Tarenskeen writes:
| Despite the computer age and all those wonderfull abc tools, I still use a
| lot of old-fashioned music paper. Today I used abcm2ps to make printable
| empty music paper. With %%scale I can even make big size staves (for my
| very young piano pupils).
|
| X:1
| M:none
| K:C clef=none
| x
| x
| x
| x
| % and so on. As much as fit on one page
|
| Of course abcm2ps is giving a lot of "underfull" messages... :-)
I started doing this a few years ago, after too much frustration
finding manuscript paper with lines black enough to copy. For some
reason, a lot of printers use grey lines. Also, it's pretty easy to
make a set of pages with staves of different sizes and spacing.
What you probably want is lines like:
x8 x8 x8 x8 x8 x8
Use however many it takes to satisfy abcm2ps. It'll take more at a
smaller scale. I use this sort of thing occasionally, to fill out a
page with blank staves. This comes in handy when you're producing an
"edit" copy of some music that you're working on.
| When I have studied the docs about Postscript that some of you recommended
| to me, I will probably not need abc anymore to create empty musicpaper. It
| will probably take very few lines of simple PS code to do this.
Here's one that someone posted a while ago:
%! Adobe Postscript 1.0
/stave
{
/d exch def
/w exch def
/y
exch def
/x exch def
0 1 4
{
d mul y add x exch moveto w 0
rlineto stroke
} for
} def
100 70 730
{
/yy exch def
50 yy 495
6 stave
} for
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