Eric Mrozek's abc2ps Page

New to v1.3.0

Extension: Mult-stave notation (single voice per staff). Guitar chords, first and second endings, and line breaks are taken from the top voice only.
Extension: Added %%systaffsep and %%systemsep pseudocomments to control staff spacing.
Extension: Q: field prints out tempo denotations. Strings are printed directly, denotations are translated to the form note=100.
Extension: %%tempofont pseudocomment specifies font used in tempo denotations.
Extension: Added blank-delimited +8 and -8 as extensions to K: field, which writes all notes higher or lower by one octave.

New to v1.2.5

Support: All modes.
Extension: Added "x" for rests which are invisible.
Support: Slurs and ties within chords improved, for example:
[(a(b] [c)d)] slurs a to c, b to d
[a-b] [ac] ties a to a
Extension: Grace notes can be before or after guitar chord.
Extension: C (alto) clef added, invoke with "K: alto"

New to v1.2.4

Support: All modes.
Extension: Bass clef added, invoke with "K: bass"
Extension: Allow [] to delimit inline fields.
Extension: \\ causes a staff break. Allows easy shifting of staff break when lyrics are involved.
Extension: In lyrics, ~ is drawn as a space, but contracts words to be written under one note.
Extension: One line of lyrics for every w: line.
Extension: More text pseudocomments (%%center, %%begintext, %%endtext)
Extension: \\ in pseudocomment causes a line break.
Extension: Output formatting pseudocomments (too many to list here).
Command: Format can be defined in *.fmt file, specified with a command line option.

New to v1.2.3

Extension: Aligned vocals under staff. Syntax: Words are given in line starting as w: under music line. Blank delimited words are aligned one-by-one with the notes. * skips one note. | tabs forward to next bar line. - splits a word into two syllables, associated with two notes, with '-' drawn between them. _ draws a horizontal line from the previous word to the next note. Blanks can be dropped around special chars (* | ~ - _ ).
Support: Bagpipe mode for K:HP.
Option: landscape orientation for flag -l.
Extension: Pseudocomment lines to format output (%%sep, %%newpage, %%text, and %%vskip).
Support: 32nd and 64th rests, 64th notes.
Support: Correct treatment of slurs at 1st, 2nd endings.

Eric M. Mrozek (mrozek@umich.edu), EECS-Systems, University of Michigan

Note: I, Eric Mrozek, am not the author of abc2ps or abcm2ps.

Last Update: 10 March 1999