On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 18:52:54 UTC, John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[snip]
I've discussed with Jef the idea of merging the jcabc2ps
extensions into abcm2ps. I'd like to use some of his
extensions, too. Maybe we can work on this character-set
issue a bit more, and then
Jean-Francois Moine writes:
| On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 18:52:54 UTC, John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| wrote:
| [snip]
| I've discussed with Jef the idea of merging the jcabc2ps
| extensions into abcm2ps. I'd like to use some of his
| extensions, too. Maybe we can work on this
I wonder whether we should keep discussing this on
abcusers, or do it in private? A public discussion does
have the advantage of keeping others up to date on what
we've done, and it invites their comments. I can think of
several cases where we might want to bring in the
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Manuel Reiter wrote:
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. ;-)
By modifying 'subs.c' and 'syms.c' modified from the
current (08-Apr-2003) version of jcabc2ps jcabc2ps
can handle macron
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
John == John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John One thing I can see missing right now is the cedille that
John Romanian and Polish use on some letters other than C. I
John suppose the obvious notation for this would be \,s and \,t.
It's called an ogonek (in Polish, anyway),
I. Oppenheim writes:
| On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Manuel Reiter wrote:
|
| 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. ;-)
|
| By modifying 'subs.c' and 'syms.c' modified from the
| current (08-Apr-2003) version of
Hi John,
| Unfortunately, the hacek and breve accents did not seem to work with my
| versions of either abc2ps or jcabc2ps when I tried them yesterday
| (guessing, then), they were just rendered as 'u' or 'v' preceding the
| would-be-accented letter. I'll have to check versions when I'm back
Hi again,
but I'd very much appreciate a list of
all (or most ;-) ) available accents.
Go to
http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/abcyclopedia/view.tpl?kw=Special%20characters
Great, thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Unfortunately, the hacek and breve accents did not seem to work
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Jack Campin wrote:
: To use accented letter, type the following:
: \`a = a with grave [...]
: \~n = n with tilde
It would be far more partable if ABC software used HTML standards
for this and deprecated TeXisms.
There's nothing wrong with these TeXisms: they are easy
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Just no mention of how to get the \ character itself... ?
While I can't imagine it being important for too many song lyrics, I'd
guess '\\' will or at least should do the trick.
Greetings,
Manuel
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, I. Oppenheim wrote:
I prefer typing [\'a] over [aacute;] If you prefer
the latter, why not write a preprocessor that converts
it back to \'a
it already exists, I wrote it: abcpp (http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/#abcpp)
But it's much simpler to use TeX-like sequences. IMHO.
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I just plop the characters i want in the abc file, like, for example:
z D E | G2 G G2 F | E2 E z F G | A2 G (FE) D | F2 E
w: v- o et por- que jus- ti- a t- en d'el et de-* rei- tu-ta,
I use
Bernard == Bernard Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bernard But this avoids the question of what *is* the character
Bernard set? For the Americans £ (pound!) and Euro are extended
Bernard characters yet of course for a European accented
Bernard characters of all sorts are right
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writes
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Just no mention of how to get the \ character itself... ?
While I can't imagine it being important for too many song lyrics, I'd
guess '\\' will or at least should do the
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But this avoids the question of what *is* the character set
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Christophe Declercq wrote:
I am a French MS-WINDOWS user but I know that there
is several character encoding systems on this planet
even for latin alphabets, so I don't find that
strange at all.
I'm a Dutch ABC user and also do not find it strange at
all. But it seems
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote:
| Unfortunately, the hacek and breve accents did not seem to work with my
| versions of either abc2ps or jcabc2ps when I tried them yesterday
I believe these hacek and breve accents are only
handled by TeX and not by any of the abc2ps clones.
I guess
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Bernard Hill writes:
|
| ... and what's the \?? code for £ anyway ?
\163
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(Actually it's not: it's either 156 or 0163 :-)
Bernard
Jack Campin wrote:
I just plop the characters i want in the abc file, like, for example:
z D E | G2 G G2 F | E2 E z F G | A2 G (FE) D | F2 E
w: v- o et por- que jus- ti- a t- en d'el et de-* rei- tu-ta,
I use jcabc2ps to render the file, but any program should be able
Hi,
could anybody give me any pointers aon how to include accented characters
in lyrics with abc2ps or any of its clones? I didnt find anything in the
current of drafted abc standards or in the abc2ps documentation.
I have a file (found somewhere on the net) which includes \'e and
produces an
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Manuel Reiter wrote:
could anybody give me any pointers aon how to include
accented characters in lyrics with abc2ps
This should also be addressed in the upcomming ABC
standard...
To use accented letter, type the following:
\`a = a with grave
\'a = a with acute
\a = a
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Manuel Reiter wrote:
could anybody give me any pointers aon how to include
accented characters in lyrics with abc2ps
This should also be addressed in the upcomming ABC
standard...
To use accented letter,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alice Corbin
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I just plop the characters i want in the abc file, like, for example:
z D E | G2 G G2 F | E2 E z F G | A2 G (FE) D | F2 E
w: vê- o et por- que jus- ti- ça tê- en d'el et de-* rei- tu-ta,
I use
Bernard Hill commented:
| In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim
| To use accented letter, type the following:
| \`a = a with grave
| \'a = a with acute
| \a = a with umlaut
| \^o = o with circumflex
| \~n = n with tilde
| \,c = c with cedilla
|
|
| What's wrong with simply putting the
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, I. Oppenheim wrote:
This should also be addressed in the upcomming ABC
standard...
I have already written a paragraph about it.
To use accented letter, type the following:
\`a = a with grave
\'a = a with acute
\a = a with umlaut
\^o = o with circumflex
\~n = n
Manuel Reiter wrote:
...
but I'd very much appreciate a list of
all (or most ;-) ) available accents.
Go to
http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/abcyclopedia/view.tpl?kw=Special%20characters
(that URL is so long it may be broken up by some email client - if so,
copy and paste - or you can go to
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