Put tune contents under 'tunes/<name>' or 'tunes-<instrument>/<name>'.
That way they won't move if the tune gets moved between Bookes.
For now I have not attempted to redirect old URLs.
Sort alternate .abc in subdir 'Compact' under the booke dir. Use that as
the graphic for A5 output, assuming it will be vertically more compact.
Use Bear Dance as an example, as it has commentary that currently
overflows an A5 landscape page.
For the moment, transposed Bookes don't transpose and so don't use Compact.
- Move title fixups into Python.
- Move key display name expansion into Python.
- Add Dottes-specific header continuation line format. None of the usual
tools appears to support the official +: continuation.
Also default to HTML entity output, and replace --contains with
--starts, which does the same thing but checks only the start of
the line and removes the matched item.
This means that we can have one main web page, dottes.html, for each
book and include the intro and tunelist to make the page. This removes
the separate header and footer components.
Perhaps we should use a template engine instead to generate the output.
That means choosing one. And preferably one that isn't aimed only at
HTML so we could use it for the printed books. More research required.
That way we can include basic markup in the into text and use it in
both LaTeX and HTML.
Take advantage of this to expand the wording of the intro text in all
books.
Currently we rely on any N: field with a Change: subnotice being the first
N: field. Add --contains field to abcfield.py to remove this restriction.
Also use it to extract new subfield Credit: and add that if present
to the tune information in print and on web.
This way the titles remains a constant size even if the image needs to be scaled.
And we have that text appearance under our control.
I can't find a way of switching off the tune title in abcm2ps, and have worked around
by setting the title format to Y0. Y is not a defined ABC header and is not found in
any Dottes tune.
Change all change notes to reference the filename of the tune to change to.
Modify web and document generators to pull the change note out of the abc
and generate an appropiate bit of content. This is now, in both cases,
a hyperlink.
In the process, remove the tune-specific .tex facility. It wasn't being
used.
I could really do with a proper templating system, and using some sort
of templating in the LaTeX generation.
The aim of MIDI and MP3 is to allow the user to hear what a tune sounds
like. For transposed bookes, I think this should be reused from the main
booke page, because hearing it at the transposed pitch isn't a major help.
And in fact given the way cello transposition is done, the sound won't
be transposed anyway. And Jane hasn't complained.
This will speed up building the bookes by removing audio generation,
the slowest process, from the transposed bookes.
1. Ensure makeWeb.sh gets its second parameter quoted, to allow for spaces in it.
2. Don't forget to copy the component text items into the horn dir.
3. Fix removing transposition tag from page title.
This is done by
a) reducing the page margins
b) compressing the heading and removing all but Notes: fields.
The latter produced vertically smaller tune PDFs that will scale wider.
In the process, modify abctitle.py to extract the first of any header field, and
move formatting for a single tune into a .fmt file.
Jim Hague
Jim Hague