NABC in LaTeX?

[John Greutman]

Hello,

Is there any way to include NABC in a document which I am compiling in LaTeX, that is, with the GABC code within the tex document itself, and not in separate GABC files? I would like to use \gabcsnippet, or something similar, if at all possible.

Thank you.

John Greutman

[Laércio de Sousa]

I use the following:

\NewDocumentCommand{\sneume}{m}{%
  \begingroup%
  \gresetnabcfont{gregall}{12}%
  \GreNABCChar{#1}%
  \endgroup%
}

\NewDocumentCommand{\lneume}{m}{%
  \begingroup%
  \gresetnabcfont{grelaon}{12}%
  \GreNABCChar{#1}%
  \endgroup%
}

CANTATE DOMINO CANTICUM NOVUM

QUIA MIRABILIA FECIT

Laércio

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[Fr. Samuel Springuel]

`\gabcsnippet` should work just fine with nabc neumes.

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[John Greutman]

Thank you, Laércio, but what I meant was in the context of musical scores (duplex editions of the chant). The above code is for putting the NABC elements in normal text, yes? I like to have all my GABC in the tex document using \gabcsnippet, that way I can make books without having hundreds of separate files for all the chants. I've also found this is a problem if I want my scores to have a different number of staff lines than the standard four. I've found no solution other than calling for the NABC (and differing staff line number) in the heading of a GABC file. But I wanted to check here before assuming it was the only way.

The above code is very handy though for another part of my project, so I will put that in my back pocket. Thank you!

[John Greutman]

Fr. Samuel,

I am not having any success using \gabcsnippet. Perhaps there is something that I am missing in the code? Here is an MWE of what I am trying:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[autocompile]{gregoriotex}

\begin{document}

\gabcsnippet{(c4) test(fef|po)}

\end{document}

[Fr. Samuel Springuel]

Oh, right. My mistake. Using nabc requires the `nabc-lines` header and that’s not available in `\gabcsnippet`. Currently the only way to use nabc in a score is with a separate file.

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(R. Padraic Springuel)
St. Anselm’s Abbey
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Washington, DC, 20017
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[John Greutman]

Oh well. Thank you for confirming this. I'm glad that it can at least be done in the gabc files, though it's a tad long-winded.

[David Chiang]

The manual uses this little hack:

\long\def\nabcsnippet#1#2{%
  \directlua{gregoriotex.direct_gabc("\luaescapestring{\unexpanded\expandafter{#2}}",
                                     "nabc-lines:#1;", false)}%
}%

Then you can write something like:

\nabcsnippet{1}{text(g|pu)}

Or

\nabcsnippet{2}{text(g|pu|pu)}

[John Greutman]

Thank you, David, that's tremendously helpful! Your last line of code for printing a second line of nabc doesn't seem to be working, but maybe two lines of nabc just isn't supported by gregorio yet? But I don't need to do double neumes for my current endeavor anyway, only St. Gall, so no matter. This will save me a huge amount of trouble!

[Matthias Bry]

\nabcsnippet{2}{text(g|pu|pu)} is not meant to print two lines of NABC, which is a feature that doesn't work yet in the stable version of gregorio.

text(g|pu|pu) encodes two lines of NABC, but only one line will be displayed. The displayed line is selected using \gresetnabc{1}{visible} \gresetnabc{2}{invisible} to display line 1 and not line 2, and vice versa.

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[John Greutman]

Ah, I see. Thanks!