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
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abc-15.txt 08-Sep-1996 23:39 17k
abc2mtex_1.5.txt 08-Sep-1996 23:39 17k
abc_15.txt 08-Sep-1996 23:39 17k
mimeabc.html 25-Sep-1996 21:10 3k
abcbnfx.txt 16-Apr-1998 18:08 10k
abcext.txt 16-Apr-1998 18:10 4k
Codes.html 03-Dec-1999 14:17 2k
FF_codes.html 03-Dec-1999 14:17 2k
ClefNames.html 23-Jan-2000 22:56 2k
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abc2midi.doc 14-Apr-2000 11:53 19k
abc2midi.txt 14-Apr-2000 11:53 19k
abc2mtex_1.5.html 14-Apr-2000 11:53 5k
abc2mtex_INTRO.html 14-Apr-2000 11:53 5k
layout.txt 14-Apr-2000 11:53 7k
compile.html 17-Sep-2000 18:14 3k
intro.html 17-Sep-2000 18:14 2k
ReadMe.abc2ps 28-Oct-2000 00:35 27k
abc2ps_ReadMe 28-Oct-2000 00:35 27k
abc2ps_ReadMe_1.2 28-Oct-2000 00:35 27k
ABCtrivial.html 11-Jan-2001 14:57 1k
Modes.html 11-Jan-2001 14:57 8k
ABCtrivial.txt 24-Jan-2001 09:53 1k
ABCconversion.html 12-Dec-2001 09:11 6k
Changes_jcabc2ps 21-Mar-2002 12:17 25k
abc2ps_fmt.html 23-Mar-2002 13:51 15k
BrowserConfig.html 30-Mar-2002 11:36 4k
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ABCtut_Accidentals.html 06-Apr-2002 19:36 1k
ABCtut_Comments.html 06-Apr-2002 19:36 2k
ABCtut_Glossary.html 06-Apr-2002 19:37 1k
ABCtut_Readability.html 06-Apr-2002 19:38 2k
ABCtut_Ties_Slurs.html 06-Apr-2002 19:38 1k
ABCtut_Tuplets.html 06-Apr-2002 19:38 1k
ABCtut__.html 06-Apr-2002 19:38 1k
ABCtut_GraceNotes.html 21-Jun-2002 14:27 3k
Makefile 27-Sep-2002 10:52 3k
ABCtut_Clefs.html 27-Sep-2002 11:12 4k
ABCtut_CharSet.html 02-Oct-2002 13:01 6k
ABCtut_Pr_Ornaments...> 27-Nov-2002 12:32 6k
ABCstd_20011122.msg 28-Mar-2003 08:53 2k
FF_contour.html 18-Jul-2003 09:19 1k
TuneContours.html 18-Jul-2003 09:19 1k
tunecontours.html 18-Jul-2003 09:19 1k
TFhdrs.html 30-Jan-2004 10:50 1k
ABCemail.html 24-Jul-2004 09:51 1k
REperl.html 24-Nov-2004 11:45 6k
FF_K.html 21-Apr-2005 21:35 2k
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proto.html 03-Nov-2005 18:22 1k
FF_Sel.html 21-Dec-2005 16:26 2k
FF_title.html 26-Dec-2005 20:34 1k
FF_No_Rec.html 26-Dec-2005 20:53 2k
FT_formats.html 03-Jan-2006 18:53 2k
abc2ps 05-Jan-2006 16:52 266k
Disclaimer.html 09-Feb-2006 09:52 1k
kendy-findtune.html 09-Feb-2006 11:05 5k
ABCtut_ABClinks.html 13-Feb-2006 20:42 2k
ABCfeatures.html 13-Feb-2006 20:42 25k
ABCtut_Features.html 13-Feb-2006 20:42 25k
trillian-FindTune.html 20-Feb-2006 22:05 2k
FT_notices_en.html 23-Feb-2006 14:54 1k
FT_Options.html 27-Feb-2006 10:19 1k
fr_85145 07-Mar-2006 12:16 2k
ABCtut_History.html 21-Mar-2006 16:41 9k
FT.css 19-Apr-2006 14:09 1k
FT_URL_en.html 18-May-2006 13:12 1k
FT_CSS.html 22-May-2006 16:25 1k
FT_title_en.html 20-Jul-2006 21:48 1k
FT_googlead.html 28-Nov-2006 13:09 1k
FT_googleads.html 28-Nov-2006 13:09 1k
trillian-findtune.html 30-Nov-2006 17:40 5k
ABC-FAQ.html 30-Nov-2006 18:37 23k
ABCsoftware.html 30-Nov-2006 18:37 12k
ABCtut_ABCsites.html 30-Nov-2006 18:38 2k
ABCtut_Intro.html 30-Nov-2006 18:38 5k
kendy-FindTune.html 15-Dec-2006 17:24 5k
FT_submit_en.html 29-Dec-2006 13:56 2k
abc2ps_README_1.4.0 10-Jan-2007 10:11 26k
New.Features 10-Jan-2007 11:43 13k
abc2ps_New.Features 10-Jan-2007 11:43 13k
FT_info_en.html 29-Jun-2007 15:27 3k
FF_Limit.html 18-Sep-2007 12:00 1k
FindTune.html 04-Dec-2007 18:14 4k
ABCtut_Voices.html 25-Feb-2008 05:54 6k
ABCtut_Chords.html 25-Feb-2008 09:35 7k
ABCtut_Repeats.html 25-Feb-2008 09:35 5k
ABCtut_Notes.html 25-Feb-2008 22:14 2k
ABCtut_Words.html 25-Feb-2008 22:14 5k
abc-draft.txt 26-Feb-2008 09:45 23k
abc2ps_Changes 26-Feb-2008 09:45 28k
FindForm.html 29-Feb-2008 10:45 1k
ABCdiacrit.html 03-May-2008 11:10 19k
FT_head_en.html 17-Aug-2008 10:08 1k
FT_Tune_info.html 16-Sep-2008 14:37 1k
FT_form_en.html 16-Sep-2008 17:05 2k
FF_Width.html 28-Sep-2008 11:31 1k
ABCtut_Lengths.html 03-Jan-2009 16:24 5k
ABCtut.html 16-Feb-2009 13:01 2k
ABCtutorial.html 16-Feb-2009 13:01 2k
ABCtut_Headers.html 16-Feb-2009 13:27 17k
ABC.html 01-Mar-2009 16:44 35k
ABCtut_Tunes.html 01-Mar-2009 16:48 4k
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ABCintro.txt 16-Mar-2009 21:04 9k
FT_announce_en.html 12-Apr-2009 19:56 1k
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findtune.html 28-May-2009 22:40 4k
FT_googlesrch.html 03-Jun-2009 12:38 1k
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_80.fmt 29-Jun-2009 15:17 1k
FF_V.html 12-Jul-2009 15:56 1k
FF_Verbosity.html 12-Jul-2009 15:56 1k
FindTest.html 24-Jul-2009 13:59 4k
findtest.html 24-Jul-2009 13:59 4k
FF_Match.html 24-Jul-2009 14:02 2k
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