Thanks, late yesterday I got this from the guy who made the abc file:
I think I found the problem. My abc software is more forgiving about some deviations from the ABC standards. I had typed in something like c|-B to indicate a c tied over a bar line to the B and the ABC program had no problem, but it should be c-|B . When I changed just that, the code compiled to NWC text without a complaint. I will paste it below, in case you want to try it.
However he forgot to paste it below, so I can't send the amended text to you....
I now think the problem is the original conversion program. I have to click through error messages to get code, on all three browsers I have tried it on (IE, Firefox and Opera), which say something like 'unable to process length: 1 last 1 char|' " I suspect it has to do with the maximum line length someone has set up in the conversion, and I don't know enough about the syntax of nwctxt files to know what to do about it..
Well, it worked except it didn't get me anywhere. Noteworthy imports my file, but displays nothing. When I look in the help file under 'import' it says only that it will import 'mid' files. There's nothing in the help file about .nwctxt at all. And I have noteworthy composer 2.5, paid and registered.
I can only rename it as something with an extension they approve of. .rtf, .txt, .odf, .pdf, etc. They have a simultaneous drop down for 'save as file type' and I do not see any way to get around it.
I am trying to convert abc files into NWC. Using a link I am not allowed to post here.
It converts abc into something that it says is the .nwctxt code, which I should save with that extension. Except that in Windows 7 I can find no way to save it with that extension. Not in Open Office, not in Wordpad. Anybody know how it is done?
