Re: [abcusers] Project for someone or already available?

2004-08-26 Thread Phil Taylor
On 26 Aug 2004, at 05:44, Chuck Boody wrote: First n bars would be the way to go. The layout of the title and incipit should be horozontal though, and not title above incipit. Yes, that's what makes it tricky to do properly. I'd need a way to create and display the index with two columns;

Re: [abcusers] Project for someone or already available?

2004-08-26 Thread Chuck Boody
Good Answers. I hope you decide to work on this feature. I'll shut up for now so you have more time :) Chuck Boody On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 04:49 AM, Phil Taylor wrote: On 26 Aug 2004, at 05:44, Chuck Boody wrote: First n bars would be the way to go. The layout of the title and

Re: [abcusers] Project for someone or already available?

2004-08-25 Thread John Walsh
Chuck Boody writes: I find that I frequently could use an index of an abc file (or set of files) that contains title followed by the first few bars (say 2-4). This would be invaluable for those situations where everyone remembers the title but not how it starts and for other such situations.

Re: [abcusers] Project for someone or already available?

2004-08-25 Thread Phil Taylor
On 25 Aug 2004, at 22:47, Chuck Boody wrote: Greetings, I find that I frequently could use an index of an abc file (or set of files) that contains title followed by the first few bars (say 2-4). This would be invaluable for those situations where everyone remembers the title but not how it

Re: [abcusers] Project for someone or already available?

2004-08-25 Thread Tom Keays
Displaying the first n bars would be my preference. It is a feature I would certainly use (and would save me having to generate such things by hand). Um, how hard would it then be to export this index of incipits to abcm2ps? Tom On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Phil Taylor wrote: An index of incipits. It

Re: [abcusers] Project for someone or already available?

2004-08-25 Thread Chuck Boody
First n bars would be the way to go. The layout of the title and incipit should be horozontal though, and not title above incipit. I also wonder if you might be able to set up an interface to abc2mtex similar to the abcm2ps. John Walsh suggested abc2mtex has the indexing feature and maybe