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%%textfont Helvetica-Bold 21 %%center Examples for new features in abc2ps-1.2.5 %%textfont * 16 %%center Oct. 5 1997 %%textfont Times-Roman 16 %%freegchord 1 % abcm2ps: don't print 'b' as a flat sign %abcm2ps: don't have a new key signature %K:C alto % text moved out of tune header - change in abcm2ps-7.x.x %%begintext alignHere is an example for a block of text which is associated with a specifictune. It will only be printed if this tune (number 3) is selected.The text should be placed after the "T:" field and before theblock is terminated by a blank line.Text which is outside a block isalways printed; for example, the title at the top of the page.%%endtext %%sep %%text Note: this line and the separator above are also associated with this tune. %%leftmargin 3cm X:5 T:Scotland The Brave T:Demonstrating the Bagpipe Mode and Output Formatting %%titleleft %%titlefont Helvetica-Bold 24 %%subtitlefont Helvetica-Bold 16 %%composerspace 0.4cm %%composerfont Helvetica 13 %%staffwidth 5.5in %%scale 0.75 %%staffsep 55 C:Trad. C:from PS file by Alan S. Watt P:March L:1/8 M:4/4 K:Dmaj E,|{G,}A,,2 {G,,D,G,,E,}A,,>B,, {G,C,D,}C,{E,}A,, {G,C,D,}C,E,| {A,G,}A,2{G,}A,2 {G,,D,G,,}A,E, {G,C,D,}C,{E,}A,,| {G,,D,C,}D,2 {G,}F,>D, {G,C,D,}C,E, {G,C,D,}C,{E,}A,,|{G,,D,G,,}B,,2{G,E,F,}E,2{A,,}E,>F, {G,}E,/2>D,/2{G,}C,/2>B,,/2| {G,}A,,2 {G,,D,G,,E,}A,,>B,, {G,C,D,}C,{E,}A,, {G,C,D,}C,E,| {A,G,}A,2{G,}A,2 {G,,D,G,,}A,E, {G,C,D,}C,{E,}A,,| {G,,D,C,}D,2 {G,}F,>D, {G,C,D,}C,E, {G,C,D,}C,{E,}A,,|{G,,D,G,,}B,,2{G,}A,,>B,, {G,,}A,,2 {G,C,D,}C,E,|| %%vskip 1cm %%textfont Times-Roman 16 %%begintextSummary of changes:- Bass and alto clefs.- Vocals.- In-line info fields can be coded using [...].- Subtitles now printed without "or:".- Can be more than one composer field.- Predefined formats: standard, pretty, pretty2 (flag -p, -P).- Format page layout by .fmt file selected with flag -F.- Format page layout by %%-pseudocomments in abc file.- Other pseudocomments: %%sep, %%vskip, %%newpage.%%endtext