LilyPond(1)

NAME
abc2ly - convert ABC to Mudela

DESCRIPTION

abc2ly translates an ABC file (see http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/) input file to Mudela (GNU LilyPond source format). abc2ly is part of the GNU LilyPond music typesetting package.

SYNOPSIS

abc2ly [options] abc-file

OPTIONS

-h, --help,
    Show a summary of usage.

-o, --output=FILE,
    Set FILE as default output.

DISCLAIMER

abc2ly is copyright 1996, 1997 by its authors. abc2ly is distributed as part of GNU LilyPond, under the terms of the GNU General Public License. abc2ly is provided without any warranty what so ever. abc2ly may be freely distributed. For further information consult the GNU General Public License, from the file COPYING.

SEE ALSO

lilypond(1)
    The GNU LilyPond music typesetter.

BUGS

abc2ly gets order of slurs, ties and chord endings wrong. Some of the header fields are not fully supported. Music with lyrics will print the lyrics doubly. abc2ly also gets confused about tuplet endings. abc2ly does not use relative octaves.

AUTHOR

Please consult the documentation file AUTHORS for more detailed information, and small contributions.

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>, http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>, http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen