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Thread #67811   Message #1135727
Posted By: GUEST,Jon
13-Mar-04 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: Tech: ABC notation
Subject: RE: Tech: ABC notation
Jim,

What do you want? As long as it's not a long work (something like an orchestral score would most certainly be out), as a one off, I for example would be quite prepared to accept an email scan from you and do my best to return you a file in pdf format.

If you just want something to sound as you play it, you would probably be better off using some MIDI sequencing software which is more performance orientated than notation software.

Longer term with ABC, I'm still not clear what you have (the latest draft proposal for the standard is only at 2.0 stage) but if you are looking to print, I really would reccommend following up Mark Clark's suggestion. If you are using Jim Vint's ABC2Win 2.1, bear in mind, going by the site - to quote: "This revised update was first posted on May 5, 2000.", it may be OK for your own use (most of the time) but is certainly not a program for exchanging abc format with others.

Jon