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2018-04-17
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ver a decade ago I needed to set some songs into nice music sheets
or our wedding ceremony. At the time there was Lilypond[0] which
as the appeal of using scheme as it's internal language and that of
lugins but the learning curve appeared to be quite steep to me and I
as working under pressure. I have found a simpler way of entering my
usic instead.
s it turns out, there is a notation standard that is easy to quickly
nter music into a computer called 'ABC notation'[1]. And there's an
ccompanying program that turns this ASCII notation into postscript,
ittingly called 'abc2ps'.
his fine program has been written by Matthias Methfessel[2] and I
ave found my copy of it together with the sheets in an old backup.
nfortunately modern C compilers have been a bit too picky and it
eems there has been a bug hiding unnoticed in all these decades that
auses a segfault on my modern machines.
he abc programs seem to have originated and used in the Celtic music
ommunity and have been popular amongst back pipers as the history
uggests[3].
have fixed it up and will serve it here[4] for further reference.
s an example have a look at 'The rocky road to dublin'[5] in the
allery[6].
orry for the earworm...
__References________________________________________________________
0]: http://lilypond.org/
1]: http://abcnotation.com/
2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20080212005024/http://www.ihp-ffo.de/~msm/
3]: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc/ABCtut_History.html
4]: gopher://vernunftzentrum.de/1/ckeen/repos/abc2ps.git
5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Road_to_Dublin
6]: gopher://vernunftzentrum.de/1/ckeen/media/index.gph
