Re:converting abc to lily?

[Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence]

Mats- that's very interesting.
What I can't see/find in the archives, or maybe just don't understand is 
how to acquire
abc2ly or the midi2ly or python for that matter.
Also when the instruction say invoke-
I know where and how to do that in linux but am a bit uncertain as to 
how to go about that in XP-
Does it mean that the program is already part of lily and that I need to 
run it from a command line?
Jay

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> The LilyPond distribution does indeed contain a program called
> abc2ly, see the section on "Converting from other formats in the
> LilyPond manual.
>
> However, if you use the new installation package for Windows, there
> are some extra tricks needed to run the extra programs like convert-ly
> and abc2ly, since they rely on the program Python that isn't included
> in the installation (at least as far as I know) see the mailing list
> archives for more information.
>
>    /Mats
>
> Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote:
>
> > Richard-
> > If you know anything about abc files?  It's a system mostly for trad 
> > (read folk) music usually single line though it is more flexible than 
> > that.  Anyway the 'programing' is similar, rather simple and then you 
> > just need a program to translate it to notation.
> >
> > Again similar to the convert.ly part of lily except lily doesn't read 
> > abc files.
> > Tabledit does and it's something else that you could be familar with 
> > as it is both a notation/guitar program and does some of what lily 
> > does too.

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