Ed, If you would like to send me some of the abc that won't work, (or just paste it into a PM), I can try and fix the problems. I would be grateful for such feedback, which helps me to improve the program.

There are certain features of 'abc' that HARMONY does not support, and which are documented in the manual, because they are not compatible with the chord generation, but most of the files I have tried are accepted.

The key signature and mode messages are warnings only, and can be ignored. Once again, they are given because specification of the wrong key or mode will adversely affect the chord generation.

The check which is made in the program is that the final note of a tune (if a crotchet or longer) should be the tonic note of the key or mode. To prevent it, you could maybe put in a dummy last note, and take it out afterwards.

BUT There is a known problem in that the suggested key may be wrong. This is fixed in the next release.

Main changes for the next release:

It has been substantially rewritten to allow you to load multiple tunes (MDA interface)

It will be much more tolerant in generating chords for incorrect bar lengths, and in using predefined chords within the abc.

It has improved import of lyrics and will print the entire lyric after the score, as well as the aligned words.

Many of the restrictions have been relaxed, due partly to the conversion to object-oriented design.