Attached is a patch for abc2ly which provides some minimal support for
the Q field.
--- CHANGES~ Mon May 28 10:06:02 2001
+++ CHANGES Wed Jun 13 09:55:14 2001
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1.4.2.lec1
+==========
+
+Added support for Q: statement to abc2ly.
+
1.4.1.jcn4
==========
--- scripts/abc2ly.py~ Wed May 9 14:35:35 2001
+++ scripts/abc2ly.py Wed Jun 13 10:16:50 2001
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
DIGITS='0123456789'
alphabet="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
HSPACE=' \t'
-
+midi_specs = ''
def check_clef(s):
if not s:
@@ -205,6 +205,23 @@
outf.write("}")
outf.write ("\n}")
+def try_parse_q(a):
+ global midi_specs
+ #assume that Q takes the form "Q:1/4=120"
+ #There are other possibilities, but they are deprecated
+ if string.count(a, '/') == 1:
+ array=string.split(a,'/')
+ numerator=array[0]
+ if numerator != 1:
+ sys.stderr.write("abc2ly: Warning, unable to translate a Q specification with a numerator of %s: %s\n" % (numerator, a))
+ array2=string.split(array[1],'=')
+ denominator=array2[0]
+ perminute=array2[1]
+ duration=str(string.atof(denominator)/string.atoi(numerator))
+ midi_specs=string.join(["\\tempo", duration, "=", perminute])
+ else:
+ sys.stderr.write("abc2ly: Warning, unable to parse Q specification: %s\n" % a)
+
def dump_score (outf):
outf.write (r"""\score{
\notes <
@@ -243,7 +260,7 @@
outf.write ("\t\t\\StaffContext\n")
# outf.write ("\t\t\\consists Staff_margin_engraver\n")
outf.write ("\t }\n")
- outf.write ("\t}\n\t\\midi {}\n}\n")
+ outf.write ("\t}\n\t\\midi {%s}\n}\n" % midi_specs)
@@ -631,7 +648,8 @@
lyrics_append(a)
if g == 'w': # vocals
slyrics_append (a)
-
+ if g == 'Q': #tempo
+ try_parse_q (a)
return ''
return ln
--
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