On 10-12-18 10:40, Andrew Bernard wrote:
Hi Johan,
Having recently become interested in Irish Traditional Music where there
are countless tens of thousands of tunes in ABC, the de facto standard
for the tradition, I'd be keen to see abc2ly brought up to date. My
tests with it on a sample of several tunes from thesession.org
<http://thesession.org> can only be described as abject failures.
It would be great to have a current working version that operates really
well, as the output from most of the ABC software available is dismal
compared to lilypond. Although 'the dots' are frowned upon in ITM
performance, it's handy to have a score to print out while learning a tune.
Is anybody interested in taking this on? I'd be happy to lend a hand as
well. At least we would be working towards a mature and non-moving
standard as regards ABC, so that's one good thing.
Andrew
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 19:31, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl
<mailto:jvrom...@squirrel.nl>> wrote:
Is the abc2ly program still under active support/development? If so, are
there any plans to upgrade it to the newer standard?
Isn't it possible (and easy) to use Wim Vree's utility abc2xml, see
https://wim.vree.org/svgParse/xml2abc.html to convert to MusicXML and
then convert the MusicXML into lilypond? From a maintenance/engineering
view, it is much preferable to have one 'intermediate' to convert
to/from, in stead of a separate converter package for each notation
system to be converted.
Wim's converter is listed in the 6-of-the-best for ABC, see
http://abcnotation.com/blog/2017/11/12/6-of-the-best-a-guide-to-abc-software/
.
Rutger
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