Re: [linux-audio-user] notation program needed

Josh Lawrence wrote: Did you look at abc (http://www.walshaw.plus.com/abc)? I've used it for can't-remember-how-many-years for everything from making small examples for a book to a full-blown big band score. It's most powerful however for small things. It's basically text-driven (like lilypond) but has much, much more compact and human-readable syntax. There are also a number of front ends out there, but although I tried a few none of them suited my needs, YMMV. If you're into such things there's also a nice emacs-mode. Most users agree that the best software for generating prints from abc is abcm2ps (http://moinejf.free.fr/). As an example of something like you want to do, the following sniplet generates http://atte.dk/download/chord.pdf (full page) or http://atte.dk/download/chord.eps (small example), both generated directly and no post editing was done (except convert ps to pdf): X:1 L:1/1 %%staves {RH LH} M:none K:none V:RH "Cmaj9"[DEG] V:LH clef=F [CB] -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk | quintet: http://www.anagrammer.dk | compositions: http://www.atte.dk/compositions