FYI: (those interested only)

The ABC Plus Project         

here at sourceforge

has source and binaries for various ABC related things WIN exes & Linux rpms for ABC Plus - which was an intended upgrade to allow harmony as well as the original intended melody that ABC was designed for.

Making Music with ABC Plus
Some ABC Plus choral music
An ABC package for LaTeX
abcm2ps binaries
abcm2ps extensions
abcMIDI binaries
tclabc binaries
NoteEdit
ABCEdit
JedABC
abcpp
abc2prt

Of interest is NoteEdit: a free, great KDE (Linux) program for editing music visually. It imports MIDI and exports in MusiXTeX, Lilypond, PMX, MIDI, and now ABC Plus too! Its original author, Joerg Anders, wrote the ABC Plus support in an amazingly short time after my suggestion/request. Kudos to Joerg!

Recently, Joerg stopped developing NoteEdit, but other developers have taken over: http://noteedit.berlios.de/. Thanks a lot, folks!

also

ABCEdit is a Windows program that integrates abcm2ps, abc2midi and GhostView in a single package. Very easy to use, and it's freeware! Kudos to Joop Coolegem, .

ABCEdit home page is http://www.abcedit.tk/.

Also

JedABC is an extension to the Jed editor that turns it into a powerful and easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for ABC files, with full integration with preprocessors, converters, players and previewers. It's similar in concept to BarFly or runabc, with several advantages.

JedABC helps you write ABC files with useful features:

All of these are close to what has been claimed is wanted.

There seems to be no 'words' or 'bouncing balls' as yet, but if approached by the Digitrad Development Team, I am sure that the editors/maintainers of these programs would give thought to those extensions.


Robin