> And here it is in ABC2MTeX. (You could have put in blanks, but
> they are not required). Transposition is done interactively.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> X: 1
> T: Silent Night
> L: 1/8
> M: 6/8
> K: C
> G3/2A/2GE3|G3/2A/2GE3|d2dB3|c2cG3|
> A2Ac3/2B/2A|G3/2A/2GE3|A2Ac3/2B/2A|G3/2A/2GE3|
> d2df3/2d/2B|c3e3|c3/2G/2EG3/2F/2D|C6
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
Personally I would have coded this as:
X: 1
T: Silent Night
L: 1/8
M: 6/8
K: C
G>AG E3|G>AG E3|d2d B3|c2c G3|
A2A c>BA|G>AG E3|A2A c>BA|G>AG E3|
d2d f>dB|c3 e3|c>GE G>FD|C6|]
(the symbol > just means dot the previous note and halve the
length of the next one). You don't have to put in blanks but they
define which notes are beamed together (and make it all a bit clearer).
Other things you should know - abc2mtex was the first
package available using abc notation (written by me :-) which
translates abc to MusiXTeX but there are now many other abc based
packages available to translate abc directly into postscript or midi
together with software to display, print or play abc notation on PC's,
Macs or UNIX boxes. Some of the packages can handle lyrics and
multiple staves. abc has become somewhat of a de facto standard
in the newsgroups and mail-lists which discuss folk & traditional
music and there are well over 10000 tunes coded up in abc available
over the web. The home page (which includes a searchable index
of ~9000 of these tunes) plus a list of all known abc software
packages (and there's around 25 of them, mostly freeware or shareware)
is at
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/
Regards,
Chris Walshaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
