TEX2ASPC(1)

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✨ tex2aspc — the glow-up your legacy MusiXTeX scores deserve ✨

okay bestie, so you know how you've got these old-school MusiXTeX scores lying around, all crusty and full of repetitive note-spacing commands? this is the little tool that takes those and re-factors them into .aspc format so autosp(1) can do its thing. it's giving makeover montage. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

tex2aspc — converts conventional MusiXTeX scores to .aspc format for processing by autosp(1).

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tex2aspc [-v | --version | -h | --help]

tex2aspc infile[.tex] [outfile[.aspc]]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea. this program goes through your score and re-factors (sequences of) conventional note-spacing commands — that's your \notes, \Notes, \NOtes, all of those — and squishes each measure's worth into a single \anotes command. iconic behaviour, honestly.

why would you want that? because it's meant for "legacy" scores, and the whole point is letting you take advantage of the features that only autosp(1) provides. like "global" skips ✨ and the processing of TransformNotes commands. the way that just works?? obsessed.

🦋 LIMITATIONS 🦋

ngl, there are a couple of things you gotta know, and they're not optional:

  • tex2aspc assumes that & and | are used to separate instruments and staffs — not \nextinstrument and \nextstaff. so if your score is out here doing it the other way, this tool is not gonna have a good time. 💀
  • User-defined macros are not processed or expanded. at all. they stay exactly as they are. no cap.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this program and this manual page were written by Bob Tennent <rdt@cs.queensu.ca>. king behaviour, we love to see it. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie — tex2aspc(1), dated 2018-02-14. go forth and let autosp(1) eat. 💖✨🎀

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