Introductory ABC documents (sorted by size):

ABCtrivial.txt

An intro for posting to mailing lists.

ABCintro.txt

A basic intro that I wrote.

ABCprimer.html

Another intro that I wrote, in HTML for web browsers.

http://www.abc-notation.com/introduction/index.html

Frank Nordberg's tutorial "The ABC of ABC".

Large ABC tutorials (sorted by author's last name):

http://perun.hscs.wmin.ac.uk/~jra/abcMIDI/abcguide.txt

James Allwright's ABC guide.

ABCtutorial.html

John Chambers' longwinded tutorial (constantly under construction).

http://www.lesession.vcisp.net/abc/abc_notation.htm

Steve Mansfield's tutorial.

http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/abcyclopedia/index.tpl

Frank Nordberg's ABCcylopedia is an encyclopedia flavoured ABC reference work.

http://www.ompom.com/docs/abc.pdf

Erik Ronström's ABC tutorial, as a PDF file.

http://www.formulus.com/hymns/How_to_Write_ABC.html

John Henckel's tutorial, emphasizing writing hymns. He has his own slightly-modified clone of abc2ps.

Other useful ABC documents:

ABC V.1.6 spec

Chris Walshaw's official ABC version 1.6 spec.

usrguide.ps

Chris Walshaw's abc2mtex user guide.

BrowserConfig.html

What we've learned about configuring browsers to handle ABC files.

http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abcm2psOnWindows.htm

Steve Mansfield's tutorial on installing abcm2ps on Windows.

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