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Interesting, do you have a link to the original ABC files you can share?

Major new ABC Transcription Tools feature 1 June 2023 You may now add hyperlinks to your PDF tunebook title page title and subtitle, as well as page headers and page footers. The new ABC comment-based directives are: To add a title page to your PDF tunebook as a hyperlink, simply add the following comment-based annotation anywhere in the ABC: %urladdtitle URL (your tunebook title text goes here...) To add a smaller subtitle as a hyperlink below the title on the title page, simply add the following comment-based annotation anywhere in the ABC: %urladdsubtitle URL (your tunebook title page subtitle text goes here...) Examples: %urladdtitle http://michaeleskin.com Tunebook Title with Hyperlink %urladdsubtitle http://michaeleskin.com/abc Tunebook Subtitle with Hyperlink If you'd like to link to a specific URL when users click in the PDF page header or footer, include either the following ABC comment-based annotations anywhere in your ABC: %urlpageheader (URL) (your header text goes here...) %urlpagefooter (URL) (your footer text goes here...) Examples: %urlpageheader http://michaeleskin.com/abc Click in this page header to visit my home page %urlpagefooter http://michaeleskin.com/abc Click in this page footer to visit my home page For the full list of available PDF tunebook directives, please check out the User Guide at: http://michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html Demo video: https://youtu.be/zh8qZhVwVek This was very messy to implement. Testing looks good, but if you run into anything that seems to be broken, please let me know.

ABC Transcription Tools Demo - How to use Adobe Acrobat to automatically convert any URLs in your PDF tunebooks to clickable hyperlinks: https://youtu.be/_Mh9WwbpoAs

Demo video of the new hyperlinked Tunebook TOC and index pages: https://youtu.be/4mxMUuem-2o

You're most welcome!

Yes, there are different directives for sorted vs. unsorted index and table of contents. If you want a sorted index, use: %addsortedindex your_index_title or for a sorted table of contents: %addsortedtoc your_toc_title Full info in the docs: http://michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html#adding_a_pdf_tunebook_table_of_contents_and_index

In my ABC Tools, I've now completely reworked the Table of Contents and Index pages as well as their sorted versions so that they now link back to the tune pages if you click on the tune name or page number. So, for example, if you put this at the top of your ABC collection in the editor, you'll get a title page, a table of contents with links back to the pages for each of the tunes, the tunes, followed by an index with links back to the pages for each of the tunes: %addtitle Session Tune Book %addsubtitle My Tunes %addtoc Table of Contents %addindex Index of Tunes I've tested it with several large tunebooks, both one tune per page, multiple tunes per page, and with text and notation incipits. If for some reason you specifically don't want the hyperlinks in the table of contents or index pages, you can add this annotation anywhere in the ABC: %nopagelinks Please try the latest version of the tool, make sure you're loading the latest page by clearing cache, if you look at the page source for the main tool, you should see <link href="app.css?v=290" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> near the top of the file. If you see a lower value, like v=286, force a page reload. If you see anything else, force a page reload. Hope this is useful to you! Full details at: http://michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html#adding_a_pdf_tunebook_table_of_contents_and_index Try my ABC Tools at: http://michaeleskin.com/abc

In my ABC Tools, I've added the ability to have the index page listings link to the tune pages if you add the following comment annotation at the top of the ABC: %doindexpagelinks There are some limitations. First, this only works for tunebook index pages, not table of contents. It's not a perfect solution, but it's way better than nothing. So, for example, if you put this at the top of your ABC collection in the editor, you'll get a title page, the tunes, then an index page with links back to the pages for each of the tunes: %addtitle Session Tune Book %addsubtitle My Tunes %addindex Index of Tunes %doindexpagelinks I've tested it with several large tunebooks, both one tune per page, multiple tunes per page, and with text and notation incipits. Please try the latest version of the tool, make sure you're loading the latest page by clearing cache, if you look at the page source for the main tool, you should see <link href="app.css?v=288" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> near the top of the file. If you see v=286 or 287, force a page reload. Hope this is useful to you! Try my ABC Tools at: http://michaeleskin.com/abc

For ABCs, my ABC tools easily transpose to any key: Find the tool here: http://michaeleskin.com/abc

Thanks David, fixed my post...

I've added a new feature to the ABC tool to allow you set the PDF quality and have some control over the PDF file size. Just put this at the top of your ABC: %pdfquality 0.5 and that will create a PDF about half the previous file size without sacrificing too much quality. The default value is 0.75, which is lower than before, the previous default was 1.0. Any new PDF files you create on the new version without overriding the default value will still be very high quality by default but a bit smaller in size than before. Here's an example, you can paste this all into the tool to try: %pdfquality 0.5 X: 1 T: The Blackwater C: Matt Cranitch R: polka M: 2/4 L: 1/8 K: Dmaj |:Fd Bd/B/|AF ED|A,B, DE|FE EF| Ad Bd/B/|AF EF|DF A/B/A/F/|ED D>E:| |:FA Bc|d2 Ad|fg/f/ ed|fe e2| dc/d/ ed|BA FE|DF A/B/A/F/|ED D>E:| You can play around with the pdfquality value until you find the sweet spot for your use. You'll need to refresh your browser and make sure you have the latest version. If not, clear the cache and reload the page. If you have the latest version and click "New ABC", you should see the pdfquality value listed in the list of optional headers.

Very cool! Also enjoying the other page you cite: https://jvandonsel.github.io/fingering/fingering.html

On many older instruments, I feel like the clicking of the mechanism is almost a integral part of the sound. I was recently transcribing a recording played on a really wonderful sounding old Jeffries C/G, and the clicks of the mechanism added an additional lovely rhythmic dimension to the cuts and rolls, sounded almost like they were double-cut and didn't distract from the music at all.

Firefox 112.0.2 is out this morning and fixes the thin line issue for earlier versions of abcjs. I've updated my tool to remove the previous Firefox hack that Paul Rosen came up with to work around the 112.0 and 112.0.1 versions. Looks good now.