Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-13 Thread ANewman110
you got game.  you go girl.

In a message dated 12/13/2002 12:43:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> 
> 
> I'm not sure what exactly iabc is, since I haven't found a 
> description of it anywhere.  I did download the source once
> to try to build it, and it wouldn't.  So I guess I don't 
> need it.
> Ali
 
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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread Alice Corbin
I'm not sure what exactly iabc is, since I haven't found a 
description of it anywhere.  I did download the source once
to try to build it, and it wouldn't.  So I guess I don't 
need it.
Ali

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:09:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I guess this is where people plug their tools.  iabc is at:
> 
> http://abc.sourceforge.net
> 
> It comes pre-compiled in windows and should run on all
> flavors, and I think it handles lyrics pretty well.  And
> its free and always will be :-)
> 
> See ya,
> Aaron
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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread ANewman110
I guess this is where people plug their tools.  iabc is at:

http://abc.sourceforge.net

It comes pre-compiled in windows and should run on all
flavors, and I think it handles lyrics pretty well.  And
its free and always will be :-)

See ya,
Aaron
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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread Steve Mansfield
This may be a bit late (sorry, haven't read the list for a couple of 
days), but you might also want to have a look at the thing I posted here 
a while back and then turned into a web page, about getting abcm2ps to 
work on Windows :

http://www.lesession.vcisp.net/abc/abcm2psOnWindows.htm

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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread Wil Macaulay
I just tried opening an Out.ps file with Acrobat Reader 5.0 on the Macintosh and
on Windows with no success.  I think the full version of Acrobat (Distiller) can work 
with
postscript
files, but Reader cannot.

[If you have Java 1.3 or better on your machine, you can use Skink as an editor/viewer
player
www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/skink.html]


wil

Frank Nordberg wrote:

> A. O. Gutierrez wrote:
> > Thanks all,
> >   I think I have enough info to go back in and figure it out. Will Acrbat
> > give a screen image of the file or simply tranlate to .pdf? I've been having
> > a hell of time downloading Ghostscript. GSview was pretty OK, but
> > Ghostscript keeps telling me it will take 2 days to download which is way
> > past inconvenient.
>
> What's wrong with that? Don't you have any patience at all??? :-P
> Seriously, you shouldn't believe everything your computer tells you.
> GhostScript is quite a download, but not *that* big!
>
> >   I ask about Acrobat because I already have that. If its just a matter
> > generating  files in abc2ps then opening them with Acrbat that might be
> > serviceable.
>
> Acrobat can open plain postscript files, can't it? If so, you have no
> need for GhostScript.
>
>  >
> > The thing I've gotten used to with ABC2win is the ability to
> > switch between ABC and graphical out put to check what I'm doing. Is that
> > possible with the .ps arrangement?
>
> Nope. That's the major shortcoming of this whole abc2ps scheme.
>
> Frank Nordberg
> http://www.musicaviva.com
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[abcusers] CAN ANYONE HELP

2002-12-12 Thread Williams Mark L DLPC
Re:

>> The thing I've gotten used to with ABC2win is the ability to
>> switch between ABC and graphical out put to check what I'm doing. Is that
>> possible with the .ps arrangement?
>
>Nope. That's the major shortcoming of this whole abc2ps scheme.

Interested folks might try looking at Guido Gonzato's JedABC. Version 1.9.6
looks like it's available at SourceForge; I haven't checked to see if that's
the latest. Anyway, it hooks up an abc editor with a midi player and screen
display of the rendered score. It's one of the first things I tried to use
w/abc and it works pretty well for me. The various windows don't all update
automatically w/my setup under Solaris, but updating is usually a matter of
2-3 keystrokes. You can leave the auxiliary view windows open, so you can
hear/see what's happening as you go along. I obviously use it under UNIX but
it's supposed to work and hook into related things that work under Windows.

FWIW...

Mark Williams
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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread Frank Nordberg


A. O. Gutierrez wrote:

Thanks all,
	I think I have enough info to go back in and figure it out. Will Acrbat
give a screen image of the file or simply tranlate to .pdf? I've been having
a hell of time downloading Ghostscript. GSview was pretty OK, but
Ghostscript keeps telling me it will take 2 days to download which is way
past inconvenient.


What's wrong with that? Don't you have any patience at all??? :-P
Seriously, you shouldn't believe everything your computer tells you. 
GhostScript is quite a download, but not *that* big!

	I ask about Acrobat because I already have that. If its just a matter
generating  files in abc2ps then opening them with Acrbat that might be
serviceable.


Acrobat can open plain postscript files, can't it? If so, you have no 
need for GhostScript.

>
The thing I've gotten used to with ABC2win is the ability to
switch between ABC and graphical out put to check what I'm doing. Is that
possible with the .ps arrangement?


Nope. That's the major shortcoming of this whole abc2ps scheme.



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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread John Chambers
Chris writes:
| Basically what abcm2ps - and all the related XXps programs - do is
| use ghostscript to produce a postscript file (with suffix .ps) which
| unless you have a postscript printer, will not be in a format your
| printer can use.

This isn't actually correct. The abc2ps clones all produce postscript
directly,  without needing help from any other program.  Of course, a
postscript file itself isn't very  useful  unless  you  have  another
program  to  display or print it.  But you don't need ghostscript for
that; any postscript interpreter (for screen  or  paper)  will  work.
Ghostscript  is useful because it's free (as in both speech and beer)
and runs on just about any machine.  Postscript is, of course,  owned
by Adobe, and their software also works pretty well.

By now, most laser and bubble-jet printers understand postscript,  so
you  probably don't need any special software to get hard copy.  Just
send the postscript file to the printer. If your printer is less than
5 years old, it will probably work.

| This is where gsview comes in - it enables you to
| display the postscript file on the screen and print it to your standard
| printer (or produce a pdf file, which is then readable with Adobe
| Acrobat).

All correct.  For some reason, some computer systems still don't come
with  postscript (and pdf) viewers installed.  If you don't have one,
the gsview (ghostview+ghostscript) package is an easy way to get one.
They've  made  the  installation on Windows really slick.  I also use
ghostscript to convert PS to PDF.

| There are two other possibilities which come to mind. If you are typing
| in the abc filename after abcm2ps, then it may be that the program is
| working and you have a file called out.ps (which is the postscript
| output) in the same directory as the program ...

Yup.  Though this scheme caused enough problems with my web site that
I modified my abc2ps clone (jcabc2ps) to act line a normal unix-style
"filter" program.  It writes the postscript to standard output, so  I
can  use it in a pipe.  If I want it written to a file, I have to say
">filename".  This makes calling it from scripts a whole lot  easier.
And  it's  more  concise  than  the  original "-o -O filename".  I've
collected (or written) a set of little programs that do useful things
with  abc and postscript, so piplines are something that I use a lot.
I don't suppose this would be very interesting to Windows users,  and
it wouldn't be useful on a Mac unless you have OSX.

| The other suggestion is to exit to dos mode (from the "Start" menu)
| which will give you much more control - i.e. since you are now in
| command line mode, you can simply type abcm2ps and get a list of the
| command switches and what they do. You will also get a stream of
| information as it is processing a file.

I've tried a couple of versions of abc2ps on Windows, and one of  the
things  that tends to get lost is the warning messages.  Not that you
always care, if it looks ok on your screen.  But abc2ps has a  number
of  messages  that  can explain when things don't come out quite like
you expect. I don't know enough about Windows to explain to users how
to see those messages.  Is there a general way to handle this?

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RE: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread A. O. Gutierrez
Thanks all,
I think I have enough info to go back in and figure it out. Will Acrbat
give a screen image of the file or simply tranlate to .pdf? I've been having
a hell of time downloading Ghostscript. GSview was pretty OK, but
Ghostscript keeps telling me it will take 2 days to download which is way
past inconvenient. Anyone experience similar problems?
I ask about Acrobat because I already have that. If its just a matter
generating  files in abc2ps then opening them with Acrbat that might be
serviceable. The thing I've gotten used to with ABC2win is the ability to
switch between ABC and graphical out put to check what I'm doing. Is that
possible with the .ps arrangement?

AO

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Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!


Chris Davidson wrote:
...
> Basically what abcm2ps - and all the related XXps programs - do is
> use ghostscript to produce a postscript file (with suffix .ps) which
> unless you have a postscript printer, will not be in a format your
> printer can use. This is where gsview comes in - it enables you to
> display the postscript file on the screen and print it to your standard
> printer (or produce a pdf file, which is then readable with Adobe
> Acrobat).


Actually all the abc2ps variants write postscript code directly. They
have nothing to do with ghostscript. For example... I typically do all
my format conversion, viewing, and printing using Acrobat.

You could use ghostscript to convert the *.ps file to a pdf, or an
image, or print it. GSView itself is a GUI for on-screen viewing. All of
the rendering is done by ghostscript. The GSView utility menus are just
GUIs to ghostscript options. You don't need GSView for any of that
(although it is very useful). You could do it all on the command line
with ghostscript.

Eric

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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread Eric Mrozek
Chris Davidson wrote:
...

Basically what abcm2ps - and all the related XXps programs - do is
use ghostscript to produce a postscript file (with suffix .ps) which
unless you have a postscript printer, will not be in a format your
printer can use. This is where gsview comes in - it enables you to
display the postscript file on the screen and print it to your standard
printer (or produce a pdf file, which is then readable with Adobe
Acrobat). 


Actually all the abc2ps variants write postscript code directly. They 
have nothing to do with ghostscript. For example... I typically do all 
my format conversion, viewing, and printing using Acrobat.

You could use ghostscript to convert the *.ps file to a pdf, or an 
image, or print it. GSView itself is a GUI for on-screen viewing. All of 
the rendering is done by ghostscript. The GSView utility menus are just 
GUIs to ghostscript options. You don't need GSView for any of that 
(although it is very useful). You could do it all on the command line 
with ghostscript.

Eric

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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread Eric Mrozek
A. O.,

Abcm2ps is a command line program. It doesn't "open" like a GUI style 
executable. Double clicking on it in the file browser doesn't do any 
good. Neither does typing the name of the file on the DOS command line. 
You have to specify command line options telling it what file to read 
and how to process it. If you don't specify something, it does nothing.

Abcm2ps is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence, which means 
you that you received source code with the binary or can get it if you 
want it. You can download the source code for free from
   http://moinejf.free.fr/
Open the compressed files and read through the *.txt files. They contain 
instructions on what to type on the command line.

You should also be able to just type
 abcm2ps
on the command line and it will spit back a condensed usage statement.

The basic format is
 abcm2ps filename -A -o
If you leave off the -o option, it won't create the postscript file (the 
default filename is out.ps). Why [rhetorically] would you not create an 
output file? If you turn on the "verbose" option, it will list the 
titles of the selected tunes on the command line or even list out a 
status report of the typesetting process.

If the file is empty or you don't tell abcm2ps to select any tunes (in 
the example, the -A option means "select all tunes"), then the output 
file would be just a blank page.

I hope you find this helpful.

Eric


A. O. Gutierrez wrote:
Thanks for the response,Chris. I'm running Win98 so DOS is not a problem. I
have operated in DOS on a limited level, but it seems like I'm stepping into
a bunch of disconnected jargon when I try to get anywhere with this
postscript stuff. I'm not sure how ghostview relates to the ABC program or
howyou ensure that your printer is getting printable info, etc. Is there any
place that has some basic tutorial that will allow this to make sense either
specifically for the ABC2ps programs or something general that will be
applicable. Also I had my brother, who has worked in DOS for 20 years or
more, try to run this program and he coulsn't get it to open with either the
exexcutable or a command line entry.


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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Davidson
Other than the files that come with abcm2ps, which explain the switches
you can add in the command line to alter formatting, I am not aware of a
tutorial per se.

Basically what abcm2ps - and all the related XXps programs - do is
use ghostscript to produce a postscript file (with suffix .ps) which
unless you have a postscript printer, will not be in a format your
printer can use. This is where gsview comes in - it enables you to
display the postscript file on the screen and print it to your standard
printer (or produce a pdf file, which is then readable with Adobe
Acrobat). If you do a search on the web, you'll find a number of places
where you can get hold of the ghostscript programs - they're open source
and free (though the very latest version has a splash screen which asks
you to register - though it works fine even if you don't!) One good
source is the Sourceforge website.

There are two other possibilities which come to mind. If you are typing
in the abc filename after abcm2ps, then it may be that the program is
working and you have a file called out.ps (which is the postscript
output) in the same directory as the program - it might be worth
looking. However, as explained above, you'll need gsview to actually
view or print from this file.

The other suggestion is to exit to dos mode (from the "Start" menu)
which will give you much more control - i.e. since you are now in
command line mode, you can simply type abcm2ps and get a list of the
command switches and what they do. You will also get a stream of
information as it is processing a file.

Hope this is helpful

Chris

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. O.
Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Thanks for the response,Chris. I'm running Win98 so DOS is not a problem. I
>have operated in DOS on a limited level, but it seems like I'm stepping into
>a bunch of disconnected jargon when I try to get anywhere with this
>postscript stuff. I'm not sure how ghostview relates to the ABC program or
>howyou ensure that your printer is getting printable info, etc. Is there any
>place that has some basic tutorial that will allow this to make sense either
>specifically for the ABC2ps programs or something general that will be
>applicable. Also I had my brother, who has worked in DOS for 20 years or
>more, try to run this program and he coulsn't get it to open with either the
>exexcutable or a command line entry.
>
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RE: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-11 Thread A. O. Gutierrez
Thanks again

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Davidson
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 5:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!


p.s. just been to Seymour Schlien's site and the URL for an introduction
to runabc is:

http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/runabc.html

and the URL to download it is:

http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html

Chris Davidson

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. O.
Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I cannot get my any copy of ABCm2ps to operate on my system. The author has
>not responded and I'm stuck with ABC2win which does nice job on tunes, but
>can't handle lyrics. There does not seem to be a tutorial around for the
>complete novice to start using these programs. I have the John Atcherly
>ABC2ps which supposedly has a windows executable. The file is there, but
>when it is activated the DOS box flashes on screen the disappears without a
>trace, no minimized indicator on the taskbar, nothing anywhere. Any help
>available?
>
>A. O. Gutierrez
>Jamestown,RI
>
>
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RE: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-11 Thread A. O. Gutierrez
Thanks for the response,Chris. I'm running Win98 so DOS is not a problem. I
have operated in DOS on a limited level, but it seems like I'm stepping into
a bunch of disconnected jargon when I try to get anywhere with this
postscript stuff. I'm not sure how ghostview relates to the ABC program or
howyou ensure that your printer is getting printable info, etc. Is there any
place that has some basic tutorial that will allow this to make sense either
specifically for the ABC2ps programs or something general that will be
applicable. Also I had my brother, who has worked in DOS for 20 years or
more, try to run this program and he coulsn't get it to open with either the
exexcutable or a command line entry.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Davidson
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 5:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!


You don't say which version of Windows you are using - if it is post
Win98 (i.e. ME or XP) then you won't be able to operate in DOS mode, and
ABCm2ps in these circumstances needs the full command line in order to
work. (i.e. after the "abcm2ps" you need to add the name of the file you
want to operate on, and any switches you want to use) A crude workaround
is to create a batch file (i.e. with a .bat suffix) using any text
editor - such as Notepad. This batch file will consist of a couple of
lines which for instance might be:

path=C:\gstools\gs5.50;C:\gstools\gsview
abcm2ps goodtune.abc -o

Then all you have to do is double click on the batch file and you will
end up with a postscript file called out.ps in the same directory as the
abc file.
(The first line tells abcm2ps where to find the ghostscript and
ghostview files and the "o" suffix tells the program to output the
postscript file.)
The drawback (as far as I discovered anyway) was that everything needed
to be in the same directory - i.e. as the abcm2ps program! It didn't
seem to like file paths.

The good news is a wonderful front end from Seymour Schlien called
RunABC (the URL of which escapes me for the moment - but there is a link
from Chris Walshaw's abc home page.) You can download a Windows
executable (about 800K) or download the whole of the TclTk package it is
built from and run it as a Tcl script. (the former is probably easier
unless you have Tcl already or are interested in developing scripts
yourself.)

The RunABC front end then needs configuring (it prompts you to do this
anyway first time around) You tell it where abcm2ps, abc2midi timidity
(software MIDI player) ghostscript and all your other related ABC
programs are. RunABC holds all this together - including very simple but
powerful control over formatting and output. (incidentally there is a
Linux TclTk version which works great as well!)

You can basically display (and then print out) play (as MIDI) edit
(using a text editor or your choice) etc etc. All ABC tunes in your
selected file are listed and you can highlight which ones you want to
print or play (or even all tunes if there are no more than around
150ish)

Hope this is helpful. Good luck!

Chris Davidson

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Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I cannot get my any copy of ABCm2ps to operate on my system. The author has
>not responded and I'm stuck with ABC2win which does nice job on tunes, but
>can't handle lyrics. There does not seem to be a tutorial around for the
>complete novice to start using these programs. I have the John Atcherly
>ABC2ps which supposedly has a windows executable. The file is there, but
>when it is activated the DOS box flashes on screen the disappears without a
>trace, no minimized indicator on the taskbar, nothing anywhere. Any help
>available?
>
>A. O. Gutierrez
>Jamestown,RI
>
>
>
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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-11 Thread Ewan A. Macpherson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) wrote:

> >I cannot get my any copy of ABCm2ps to operate on my system. 

>> The file is there, but
> >when it is activated the DOS box flashes on screen the disappears without a
> >trace, no minimized indicator on the taskbar, nothing anywhere.

> This could be a case of the blind leading the blind, since I'm a Mac
> user.  However, abcm2ps on the PC is a DOS program, and you have to
> start it up from DOS.  So put your abc file in the same directory as
> the program, start up DOS and cd to the abcm2ps directory.  Then
> type abcm2ps filename.abc and it should run, creating a postscript
> file in the same directory.  (There are also some command line switches
> you can find out about in the docs that come with the program.)

If you don't like running in a DOS box, you can try out a little 
Windows GUI front end I've thrown together, abcm2psgui.exe . You still 
need to learn about the command-line options, but I find it useful.  
Get it from:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~emacpher/misc/grab/abcm2psgui.exe
and put it in the same directory as abcm2ps.exe .

You'll of course need something like Ghostview to view or print the 
resulting .ps files.

cheers,
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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-11 Thread Phil Taylor
>I cannot get my any copy of ABCm2ps to operate on my system. The author has
>not responded and I'm stuck with ABC2win which does nice job on tunes, but
>can't handle lyrics. There does not seem to be a tutorial around for the
>complete novice to start using these programs. I have the John Atcherly
>ABC2ps which supposedly has a windows executable. The file is there, but
>when it is activated the DOS box flashes on screen the disappears without a
>trace, no minimized indicator on the taskbar, nothing anywhere. Any help
>available?

This could be a case of the blind leading the blind, since I'm a Mac
user.  However, abcm2ps on the PC is a DOS program, and you have to
start it up from DOS.  So put your abc file in the same directory as
the program, start up DOS and cd to the abcm2ps directory.  Then
type abcm2ps filename.abc and it should run, creating a postscript
file in the same directory.  (There are also some command line switches
you can find out about in the docs that come with the program.)

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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Davidson
p.s. just been to Seymour Schlien's site and the URL for an introduction
to runabc is:

http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/runabc.html

and the URL to download it is:

http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html

Chris Davidson

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. O.
Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I cannot get my any copy of ABCm2ps to operate on my system. The author has
>not responded and I'm stuck with ABC2win which does nice job on tunes, but
>can't handle lyrics. There does not seem to be a tutorial around for the
>complete novice to start using these programs. I have the John Atcherly
>ABC2ps which supposedly has a windows executable. The file is there, but
>when it is activated the DOS box flashes on screen the disappears without a
>trace, no minimized indicator on the taskbar, nothing anywhere. Any help
>available?
>
>A. O. Gutierrez
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Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Davidson
You don't say which version of Windows you are using - if it is post
Win98 (i.e. ME or XP) then you won't be able to operate in DOS mode, and
ABCm2ps in these circumstances needs the full command line in order to
work. (i.e. after the "abcm2ps" you need to add the name of the file you
want to operate on, and any switches you want to use) A crude workaround
is to create a batch file (i.e. with a .bat suffix) using any text
editor - such as Notepad. This batch file will consist of a couple of
lines which for instance might be:

path=C:\gstools\gs5.50;C:\gstools\gsview
abcm2ps goodtune.abc -o

Then all you have to do is double click on the batch file and you will
end up with a postscript file called out.ps in the same directory as the
abc file. 
(The first line tells abcm2ps where to find the ghostscript and
ghostview files and the "o" suffix tells the program to output the
postscript file.)
The drawback (as far as I discovered anyway) was that everything needed
to be in the same directory - i.e. as the abcm2ps program! It didn't
seem to like file paths.

The good news is a wonderful front end from Seymour Schlien called
RunABC (the URL of which escapes me for the moment - but there is a link
from Chris Walshaw's abc home page.) You can download a Windows
executable (about 800K) or download the whole of the TclTk package it is
built from and run it as a Tcl script. (the former is probably easier
unless you have Tcl already or are interested in developing scripts
yourself.) 

The RunABC front end then needs configuring (it prompts you to do this
anyway first time around) You tell it where abcm2ps, abc2midi timidity
(software MIDI player) ghostscript and all your other related ABC
programs are. RunABC holds all this together - including very simple but
powerful control over formatting and output. (incidentally there is a
Linux TclTk version which works great as well!)

You can basically display (and then print out) play (as MIDI) edit
(using a text editor or your choice) etc etc. All ABC tunes in your
selected file are listed and you can highlight which ones you want to
print or play (or even all tunes if there are no more than around
150ish)

Hope this is helpful. Good luck! 

Chris Davidson

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. O.
Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I cannot get my any copy of ABCm2ps to operate on my system. The author has
>not responded and I'm stuck with ABC2win which does nice job on tunes, but
>can't handle lyrics. There does not seem to be a tutorial around for the
>complete novice to start using these programs. I have the John Atcherly
>ABC2ps which supposedly has a windows executable. The file is there, but
>when it is activated the DOS box flashes on screen the disappears without a
>trace, no minimized indicator on the taskbar, nothing anywhere. Any help
>available?
>
>A. O. Gutierrez
>Jamestown,RI
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[abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-11 Thread A. O. Gutierrez
I cannot get my any copy of ABCm2ps to operate on my system. The author has
not responded and I'm stuck with ABC2win which does nice job on tunes, but
can't handle lyrics. There does not seem to be a tutorial around for the
complete novice to start using these programs. I have the John Atcherly
ABC2ps which supposedly has a windows executable. The file is there, but
when it is activated the DOS box flashes on screen the disappears without a
trace, no minimized indicator on the taskbar, nothing anywhere. Any help
available?

A. O. Gutierrez
Jamestown,RI



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