On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:04:10PM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: > > I've spent all these years struggling to learn LaTeX, and I'm not > going to learn abcm2ps %% directives to replace that with, but as > someone who has had the flexibility of LaTeX for all these years, I > assure you that one of the things people often want to use it for is > to specify where page breaks come.
Hear hear. and \vfill / \hfill. I find TeX and its friends really horrible, I've never really understood what I'm doing with it - but, it _works_, it does the job, once you've managed to tell it what the job is. Likewise, I reckon the %%abc2ps directives aren't a very satisfactory substitute. Basically, I think the original abc2mtex model was a good and helpful way to look at it - go through the file replacing each individual tune with something that a typesetter can treat as a tune, and then hand the whole issue over to the typesetter. Like I said before, keep things separate. And I think lilypond-book is like that too ? I suppose the abc2ps equivalent would be to drop all the "directives" except the %%postscript pass-through. Which makes me feel much more kindly towards LaTeX. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
