I'm the sheet music editor of the Werner Icking Muisc Archive, http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/ which has an associated mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A posting to that list by J�rg Anders made me aware of your abc typesetting utilities incl. rpm binaries of abcm2ps and abcpp. As I'm always curious with music typesetting software besides with the MusiXTeX utility suite distributed from our archive I got the above mentioned rpm binaries installed and tested on one of your own typesettings, "Ave Regina Coelorum", by Guillaume Dufay.
I must say that I'm impressed with the typesetting result, sheet note graphics as well as lyrics :-) However, I do have a suggestion for improvement: slurs should start and end close to their anchoring noteheads which is not the case with some of the slurs in your Dufay score. This score contains quite a few cases of slurs starting or ending at the end of a stem. As I didn't go into further investigations of the abc coding syntax I can't say whether you actually have the choice of altering/modifying the ending points of a slur. If that is not so I recommend improving the abc slur processing such that it as default anchors slur ending points close to noteheads, thereby offsetting them to avoid slurs clashing with or crossing stems.
That's just my two-penny point-of-view:-)
Besides that I have a comment specific for your Duafy score: the tenor (middle) part is, even if notated with an ordinary G-clef to be read an octave lower. If the abc syntax supports a octave-down G-clef (with the digit 8 drawn beneath the clef glyph) then I recommend using that for the tenor part. Whether that is possible or not you should, however, definitely see to it that the MIDI processing transposes the tenor part an octave down or else an important aspect of Dufay's counterpoint gets lost: it is typical for the music from the Dufay era that the actual "bass" note shifts between several parts, in this case between the two lower parts.
Best regards -- Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Phone: +45 89 49 53 01 - http://www.scandiatransplant.org
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