Sorry John, I did forget to add my name to one guest post...

John from my side, I have no idea what drivers a user may have but I know people can get Acrobat for free for just about any system. That's why I work that way and personally I like the output from a pdf. I guess I could also provide the plain ps output but have never been convinced many would be capable of printing that way (perhaps something to look at).

The main usefulness of ps to me is that by far the best typesetting program I know of for abc is abcm2ps which as by it's name indicates the output it produces.

As for some of the complexities, really I was trying to show part of what some simple scripting on a web site and abc combined can do, e.g, it's not bad being able to offer a tune in any key, as a pdf (also a MIDI conversion and png graphic) and all on FREE software (and that of course includes the php).

You are of course right we have drifted miles of areas that are likely to be of interest to W.E. (at least for now).

Jon