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brianread

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Help with ABC Explorer
« on: January 26, 2017, 10:49:47 AM »

I am working on consolidating about 22 ABC en-coded tunes into a single pdf document.

I've downloaded abcexplorer and have incorporated the 22 tunes, however i know want to be able to controi were the page breaks go in the pdf file. Anyone got any ideas? I can see that it uses ghostscript, perhaps I could add in some ghostscript formatting commands (if such a thing exists)?

TIA
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D/G Oakwood (new model), D/G, C /F, Bb/Eb and E/A Liliputs,
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2.5 D/G Self made Emmanuel Pariselle, D/G Pokerwork,
and Wolverton Advanced G/D Anglo Concertina and C/G  1937 Wheatstone.
all played "lefty" with mostly an extra air button, except the Concertinas which I play the conventional way round.

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Re: Help with ABC Explorer
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2017, 11:56:13 AM »

I am working on consolidating about 22 ABC en-coded tunes into a single pdf document.

I've downloaded abcexplorer and have incorporated the 22 tunes, however i know want to be able to controi were the page breaks go in the pdf file. Anyone got any ideas? I can see that it uses ghostscript, perhaps I could add in some ghostscript formatting commands (if such a thing exists)?

TIA

Use %%vskip nn or %%newpage commands in your abc at the point you need to throw vertical spacing or a new page:
http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-doc/vskip.xhtml
http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-doc/newpage.xhtml
http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-doc/

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Re: Help with ABC Explorer
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2017, 12:29:34 PM »

wow - that is fantastic - many thanks Vince.
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D/G Oakwood (new model), D/G, C /F, Bb/Eb and E/A Liliputs,
A STREB!!,
2.5 D/G Self made Emmanuel Pariselle, D/G Pokerwork,
and Wolverton Advanced G/D Anglo Concertina and C/G  1937 Wheatstone.
all played "lefty" with mostly an extra air button, except the Concertinas which I play the conventional way round.
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