Does anyone know how to force a line break when converting ABC to standard notation? I have a tune in which the last line has only two measures, and the program (concertina.net) makes those two measures fill the whole line. I want them to be two small measures about the same width as the ones in the line above it.
Thanks,
Erik
p.s. Of course I’m not using sheet music. What are you suggesting? I’m just experimenting and I’ll throw it away when I’m done.
A back slash forces a line break when using the ABC](http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html%22%3EABC) Convert-A-Matic.
Thank you, Gary… unfortunately it didn’t work. Neither did a backslash nor an exclamation point.
Any other ideas?
Here’s the tune:
X:1
T:Hector the Hero
R:waltz
C:J.S.Skinner
O:Scotland
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=105
K:Dmaj
D/E/ | "D"F2E/D/ | "G"B2A/F/ | "D"A3/2B/A | "D"A2D/E/ | "Bm"F2E/D/ | "G"B2A/F/ |
"Em"E3/2F/ E/D/ | "A"EDE | "Bm"F2E/D/ | "G"B2A/F/ | "D"ADD | "G"B/c/ d3/2/c//B | "D"AD3/2F/ |
"A"EcE | "D"D2E/D/ | "D"D2 :: F/A/ | "G"Bd3/2A/ | Bd3/2B/ | "D"A2B/A/ | "D"A2F/A/ |
"Bm"B3/2A/ (3B/A/G/ | "Bm"A D/E/ F | "Em"E3/2 F/ E/D/ | "A"EFA | "Bm"B d3/2 A/ | B d3/2 B/ |
A D2 | B/c/ d3/2/c// B | A D3/2 F/ | EcE | D2 E/D/ | DFA | B2 {c}B/A/ | B d3/2 B/ |
A2 B/A/ | A2 F/A/ | B3/2 A/ (3B/A/G/ | A D/E/ F | E3/2 F/ E/D/ | EFA | B d3/2 A/ |
B d3/2 B/ | A D2 | Bc d3/2/c// B | A D3/2 F/ | EcE | D2 E/D/ | D3 
D/E/ F/G/ (3B/A/G/ | A/G/ F/E/ E/D/ |!
The last two measures are alternate ideas for a few of the measure above, so I want them to be seperate.
Oops… I meant to say back slash instead of forward slash! 
I see the problem you’re having now, and I don’t know if there’s a solution… but hopefully someone does.
I don’t think you can force Concertina.net to not fill the entire width of the page…
The only solution I can think of to make the last two measures “small” is to throw a lot of “throwaway” measures at the end, filled with rests:
X:1
T:Hector the Hero
R:waltz
C:J.S.Skinner
O:Scotland
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=105
K:Dmaj
D/E/ | "D"F2E/D/ | "G"B2A/F/ | "D"A3/2B/A | "D"A2D/E/ | "Bm"F2E/D/ | "G"B2A/F/ |
"Em"E3/2F/ E/D/ | "A"EDE | "Bm"F2E/D/ | "G"B2A/F/ | "D"ADD | "G"B/c/ d3/2/c//B | "D"AD3/2F/ |
"A"EcE | "D"D2E/D/ | "D"D2 :: F/A/ | "G"Bd3/2A/ | Bd3/2B/ | "D"A2B/A/ | "D"A2F/A/ |
"Bm"B3/2A/ (3B/A/G/ | "Bm"A D/E/ F | "Em"E3/2 F/ E/D/ | "A"EFA | "Bm"B d3/2 A/ | B d3/2 B/ |
A D2 | B/c/ d3/2/c// B | A D3/2 F/ | EcE | D2 E/D/ | DFA | B2 {c}B/A/ | B d3/2 B/ |
A2 B/A/ | A2 F/A/ | B3/2 A/ (3B/A/G/ | A D/E/ F | E3/2 F/ E/D/ | EFA | B d3/2 A/ |
B d3/2 B/ | A D2 | Bc d3/2/c// B | A D3/2 F/ | EcE | D2 E/D/ | D3
D/E/ F/G/ (3B/A/G/ | A/G/ F/E/ E/D/ |z4|z4|z4|z4|z4|
and if those throwaway measures really bug you, here it is, with them photoshopped out 
Yeah, that’ll work. Thanks Greg!
Erik
Concertina.net, by the way, uses a standard free program called ABC2PS. I downloaded it and compiled it on my Mac (which is Unix, so all this stuff compiles with no problems.)
If you run this program at home, you can feed it options to control the style and layout. You can also tinker with the code, which I did to tidy it up and add a few more flags.
Caj
(And BTW, if you play viola, you can write " alto" in the ABC file after the key, and it draws it in alto clef.)