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Various revisions of printed book presentation. 1. Purple background on the front and and new blank back pages. 2. UK English for hyphenation and date presentation. 3. Dedication and 'About Havoc' section. 4. Footer just page number in centre of page. 5. Revised copyright discussion. 6. Since it's a book, make content, intro and first lines to chapters. And prompt individual tunes to sections. 7. Omit 'Tunes' chapter heading. It doesn't look good in A5.
author Jim Hague <jim.hague@acm.org>
date Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:56:34 +0100
parents 811151d3ae73
children 1b79867b4f35
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#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Write out a modified version of a .abc file with just the data
# to print the first line of the music only.
#

import sys

def process(inf):
    continued = False
    print "X:1"
    for line in inf:
        line = line.strip()
        # If it is empty or starts "%", ignore it.
        if len(line) == 0 or line[0] == "%":
            continue

        # Is it a header line? I.e. does it start LETTER COLON?
        # If so, output only ones we need.
        start = line[:2]
        if len(start) > 1 and start[1] == ":" and start[0].isalpha():
            if start[0] in ["M", "K", "L"]:
                print line
        # Output line. If it is a continuation, output at most one
        # continuation.
        else:
            print line
            if continued or line[-1] != "\\":
                break
            else:
                continued = True

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
        try:
            inf = open(arg, "r")
            process(inf)
        finally:
            inf.close()
else:
    process(sys.stdin)