Re: converting abc to lily?

[Mats Bengtsson]

It seems that the developers are still working to sort out these
issues. As long as you use the installation of version 2.4 using
Cygwin, all these programs are available and working and can be
called from the Cygwin command prompt.

   /Mats

Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote:
> 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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