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abc2ly
ABC is a fairly simple ASCII based format. It is described at http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/abc.txt.
Invoking abc2ly
abc2ly [OPTION]... ABC-FILE
Convert ABC to LilyPond.
There is a rudimentary facility for adding lilypond code to the ABC
source file. If you say:
%%LY voices \property Voice.noAutoBeaming=##t
This will cause the text following the keyword "voices" to be inserted into the current voice of the lilypond output file.
Similarly:
%%LY slyrics more words
will cause the text following the "slyrics" keyword to be inserted into the current line of lyrics.
Options
-h,--help
- this help
-o,--output=FILE
- set output filename to FILE
-v,--version
- version information
-h,--help
-o,--output=FILE
-v,--version
BUGS
The ABC standard is not very "standard". For extended features (eg. polyphonic music) different conventions exist.
Multiple tunes in one file cannot be converted.
ABC synchronizes words and notes at the beginning of a line; abc2ly does not.
abc2ly ignores the ABC beaming.
Written by hanwen@cs.uu.nl.
Report bugs to bug-lilypond@gnu.org.
Please send GNU LilyPond questions and comments to lilypond-user@gnu.org.
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Copyright (c) 1997--2001 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
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