Ed, you'll find ABCRUN here:

http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html

The best maintained site for finding ABC applications is at Frank Nordberg's Musica Viva - sorry should have included this address in my earlier thread:

http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/abcapp/index.tpl

Mark, I haven't tinkered with the TEX programs. I was operating on the presumption that they were developed prior to the latest lyrics standards, and hence lacked that functionality. If you know something different please let me know.

Any further feedback on this whole subject would be warmly welcomed.

Best Regards, John

MMario, I'd be keen to find out more about the latest NWC version (I'll look at it). The original MIDI standard was pretty lean with regards to lyrics. Has this changed?

Bryan Creer has a shareware program known as ABC2NWC or NWC2ABC which you can find at ABACUS Music on the Web. It's a great utility, however it doesn't from my tests appear to handle the lyric conversion to NWC perfectly. Bryan has told me that he MAY be prepared to fix it if somone can deduce what elements of the lyrics causes the hiccups. I've sought volunteers from Mudcat in the past, but MMario's is the first concrete offer that I've had. (I haven't looked too seriously at the reciprocal conversion from NWC to ABC).