Format files for abcm2ps

I never thought I would pick up Postscript programming, but that was just I did for the past couple of weeks, so that I can extend the abcm2ps music notation software. I wrote 3 format files in a row (interspersed with lots of fumbling around and googling for answers to my Postscript problems – I [...]

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Announcing abc2harp (beta)

Okay, my abc2harp Perl script should be ready to face the world now. Licked some more bugs since the previous update. I’m sure there are yet more undiscovered bugs (there always are), but it’s pretty functional. Hope some of you will find it useful and let me know what you think of it.

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abc2mma updated

Spotted a stupid typo in abc2mma where I confused the bitwise and logical operators while handling triplets and such. It’s been fixed and the version bumped to 0.51. My abc to harp tab script is coming along nicely. It can handle different harp keys, but I think I won’t deal with harp positions as yet. [...]

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Announcing abc2mma (beta)…and more stuff in the pipeline.

Released a beta of my abc2mma Perl script for generating MMA files from ABC music notation. I wrote it to create backing tracks for practice. Free for personal and non-commercial use. I’ve recently started on an abc to harp (harmonica) tab generator too. It’s functional for C diatonic harp right now. I want to try [...]

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Free music typesetting

I’ve been trying out various music typesetting (i.e. score notation or engraving) software for some time now, both free and demos. I knew of Lilypond since a long time back, but it was designed to run under a Linux environment and takes advantage of many other tools that Linux provides. It is supposed to be [...]

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