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Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bryan Creer on 2001-03-02 05:00 AM

Title: Conversion from abc
Post by: Bryan Creer on 2001-03-02 05:00 AM
Noteworthy is popular in our area (Sussex, England) for exchanging and printing folk music. Its only drawback is that it doesn't have access to the huge collections of traditional music in abc format. To get over this, I have written a programme to convert between abc and Noteworthy format files (and back). This is available as shareware from http://members.aol.com/abacusmusic/ which has a link to the abc homepage for those not familiar with the format.

Bryan
Title: Re: Conversion from abc
Post by: jay on 2001-04-15 04:00 AM
I don't know how many people outside of folk [especially celtic trad music] need this- as I teach pennywhistle I have used and found that Tabledit works very well for the job you have as shareware- Anyone interested should try both- j
Title: Re: Conversion from abc
Post by: Ertugrul iNANÇ on 2001-04-16 04:00 AM
Where can we get free scores in abc?
Title: Re: Conversion from abc
Post by: Fred Nachbaur on 2001-04-17 04:00 AM
Start here: Frank's ABC site (http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/index.tpl)

This has recently been reorganised, so may be a little rough to navigate at the moment.
Title: Re: Conversion from abc
Post by: Jean CIFRANE on 2001-04-20 04:00 AM
I have seen some months ago the discussion in this forum and in the user's forum on a musical OCR shareware that was rather good but as no interface to NWC except MIDI that gives poor translation. Is it possible to use ABC or to write a translate program ?
Sory I have not succeded in finding the SEARCH funcion to this forum to be more explicit for the name of the shareware and its interface other than midi...
Title: Re: Conversion from abc
Post by: Jean CIFRANE on 2001-04-22 04:00 AM
More information :The notation standard (?) used is NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format) and the musical OCR program is Sharp Eye that you can find on http://www.visiv.co.uk/ . By the way I don't like the price of their future version 2.
Do you have a translate program for ABC or NWC (to and) from NIFF ?