Contents

• Version and history
• General structure
  • Program options
  • abc input
  
  
• Information fields
  • Overview
  • Particular fields
  
  
• Music
  • Key and Clef
  • Pitch
  • Rhythm
  • Bars and repeats
  • Beams, ties and slurs, ligaturae
  • Graces and decorations
  • Chords
  
  
• Text
  • Text above notes and bars
  • Lyrics
  • Free text
  
  
• Scores
  • Multi stave music
  • Polyphonic music
  
  
• Tablature
  • Course and fret
  • Rhythm
  • Decorations
  • Text below notes
  • Beams, ties and slurs
  • Tenuto strokes
  • Format parameters
  • Tablature Fonts
  • Unsupported Features
  
  
• Format fine tuning
  • Staff breaking
  • Fonts
  • Page layout parameters
  • Scope of parameters
  • Spontaneous alignment
  • Historic layout
  
  
• Other utilities
  • abc
  • Postscript
  
  
• References and credits
• Index