This directory contains assorted ABC-related documentation.
If you have suggestions for more documents that belong here,
you might
send me mail.
Here is a list of known ABC instructional documents on the Web:
- Introductory ABC documents (sorted by size):
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ABCtrivial.txt
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An intro for posting to mailing lists.
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ABCintro.txt
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A basic intro that I wrote.
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ABCprimer.html
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Another intro that I wrote, in HTML for web browsers.
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http://www.abc-notation.com/introduction/index.html
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Frank Nordberg's tutorial "The ABC of ABC".
- Large ABC tutorials (sorted by author's last name):
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http://perun.hscs.wmin.ac.uk/~jra/abcMIDI/abcguide.txt
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James Allwright's ABC guide.
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ABCtutorial.html
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John Chambers' longwinded tutorial (constantly under construction).
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http://www.lesession.vcisp.net/abc/abc_notation.htm
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Steve Mansfield's tutorial.
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http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/abcyclopedia/index.tpl
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Frank Nordberg's ABCcylopedia is an encyclopedia flavoured ABC reference work.
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http://www.ompom.com/docs/abc.pdf
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Erik Ronström's ABC tutorial, as a PDF file.
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http://www.formulus.com/hymns/How_to_Write_ABC.html
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John Henckel's tutorial, emphasizing writing hymns.
He has his own slightly-modified clone of abc2ps.
- Other useful ABC documents:
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ABC V.1.6 spec
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Chris Walshaw's official ABC version 1.6 spec.
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usrguide.ps
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Chris Walshaw's abc2mtex user guide.
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BrowserConfig.html
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What we've learned about configuring browsers to handle ABC files.
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http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abcm2psOnWindows.htm
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Steve Mansfield's tutorial on installing abcm2ps on Windows.
And, of course, there's the
ABC home page
for information on ABC software