header text

footer text

header1 text

header2 text

footer2 text

Specify the text to be printed at the top or bottom of each page.

If %%header2 and/or %%footer2 are defined, their lines go to the even pages.

There may be one or two lines in the header and footer commands.
To specify 2 lines, put the 2 characters "\n" (not a real 'newline') as a separator in the command.

In each line, 3 areas may be defined: left, center and right. These areas are separated by tabulations (real TABs, or "\t") and may be empty (if the left area is empty, double quote the string - see sample3.abc for example).

The prefix '$' introduces a variable substitution:

• '$d' is the date and time of the last modification of the current ABC input file
• '$D' is the current date and time - see %%dateformat
• '$F' is the current input file name
• '$Ix' is any header information type ('x' is a letter range 'A' to 'Z')
• '$P' is the current page number
• '$P0' and '$P1' are also the page number, but apply only to the even ('0') or odd ('1') page numbers,
• '$T' is the current tune title
• '$V' is the program name (txtmus, abc2svg or abcm2ps) followed by its version

%%header "$P0		$P1"

If the header or footer text begins with '-' (hyphen/minus), it is not printed on the first page. When the header begins with '-', the command %%header1 may put a header on top of the first page.

With txtmus and abc2svg, the headers and footers are separated SVG elements. They can be selected in CSS by their class ("header" and "footer"). This may be useful in a browser context if you don't want these elements to be displayed on the screen.

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