Just one more comment for the observer...

We need to be careful with comments such as Noteworthy has a particular "status" on the 'cat, and is worth learning, and having available. ABC is valuable if you are much into searching up tunes on the web. Neither is, in my opinion, the best way to print a few tunes to put in your personal notebook; but everyone gets different mileage...

The reason for suggesting this is that while Noteworthy is a program, abc is a notation format and many programs support the format - there is more than one way to use abc.

I have to agree with John's "different mileage" though and we must remember about differences in needs. At one extreme in this thread, I could pick out Mark Clark for one (I think Dave is another...) - an experienced programmer/ computer professional to whom running command line programs will be second nature (bet you they could even tell me about using punch cards), people like me who sit somewhere in the middle and people who are only comfortable with a graphical interface.

A lot of the current abc stuff does need the command line knowledge but much depends on what you want to do. An example I can think of with abc that occured recently on uk.music.notation was the production of a graphic. here is an example of a gif produced from the excellent and easy to use Barfly and here is (my not as good as I'd have liked it) gif conversion from a pdf produced as described above. The difference in appearence is quite noticable and both are from the same abc. Personally, I'd use the Barfly version for my notebook as it is quick and easy to do from the program but I'd give the other one out (in the pdf printed version which does look really nice when printed) if I wanted to make the tune available to others...

Jon