Manuel Reiter writes:
| sorry to answer my own post, but I've gotten a bit further after some
| reading up of Postscript specs and a lot of guesswork. ;-)
I noticed that post, but didn't manage to get around to it
yesterday. I just grabbed the latest files and compiled
them. After a bit of twiddling to include some recent
changes (to make it read from stdin if there are no file
names), I tried it and it worked fine. My HP LaserJet4L
printer even printed them all very nicely. I'll have to
study the code to see how it works.
I notice that there is commented-out code for \~x chars. I
can understand why this would have to be special, since \~
already has a meaning in w: lines. It would be really nice
to make this work. I wonder what the best way to handle the
conflict with \~ would be? This is already a bit of a
kludge, as it is used to mean a literal tilde. We want to
change it to add a tilde to the following char. Maybe a
literal tilde would have to be \~~. That would mean a tilde
added to itself, which could reasonably be considered a
no-op. But I can hear the objection from mathematicians ...
| By modifying 'subs.c' and 'syms.c' modified from the current (08-Apr-2003)
| version of jcabc2ps found at
|
| http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/src/jcabc2ps-src.tar.gz
I put the modified version at:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/src/jcabc2ps-20030703-src.tar.gz
I've always included a link to a file with such a date.
This time, as it's experimental, I'll leave the name
jcabc2ps-src.tar.gz as the old version for now, and change
it only if the new one looks like it doesn't have any
problems. Anyone is welcome to try it and see if they can
find old abc that it breaks.
| A couple of issues I'm aware of:
|
...
|
| - Placement of the accents works quite well for most characters but is
| ugly for high lower-case characters like 'l' and 'b'.
One kludge would be to list the tall lower-case letters and
treat them as upper case.
| I hope anybody besides me finds this helpful. :-) Maybe it will even make
| its way into mainstream jcabc2ps when the above issues have been sorted
| out.
I'll try converting some of my Balkan songs to use this
notation, and find out how well it works. One thing I can
see missing right now is the cedille that Romanian and
Polish use on some letters other than C. I suppose the
obvious notation for this would be \,s and \,t.
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