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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/support/abc2mtex/Install.mac b/support/abc2mtex/Install.mac new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c740ab7046 --- /dev/null +++ b/support/abc2mtex/Install.mac @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ + +Welcome to the Mac distribution of abc2mtex Version 1.6.1 + +To run abc2mtex on a Mac you will need TeX, MusicTeX, and access to a +postscript printer. The TeX package for Macs (OzTeX) can be obtained +from CTAN or from the TeX Users Group, TUG, on floppy disk (see below). +MusicTeX (or MusiXTeX) can be also be obtained from CTAN or from its +creator Daniel Taupin on one 1.2Mbyte disk. + +Alternatively, Paul Anderson has stripped everything you need from TeX and +MusicTeX and put them in one package, OzTeX4ABC.hqx, available where you +found this file and this is a much less painful way of getting everything +set up. To install this file, follow the same procedures (download, expand +and look at the README) as for MacABC1.6.1.hqx below. + +INSTALLATION +============ +You should first download and expand the file MacABC1.6.1.hqx; you can +do this with various applications freely available on the internet such as +Stuffit Expander. From there look at the enclosed README file to install +OzTeX and MusicTeX. + +USE +=== +The Mac version of abc2mtex comes with two different applications which +can be used to create sheet music from abc notation. The simplest way +is to use MacABC which has been created by Paul Anderson and which you +can drag-and-drop abc files into. A full description of how to use it +can be found in the README file enclosed in MacABC1.6.1.hqx. The other +application, ABC2MTeX, has been compiled by Paul with the abc2mtex source +code (which is used for the PC and UNIX versions). This works more or +less as described in usrguide.ps. When you double click on ABC2MTeX you +get a window: in the "Argument:" box you can type any instructions +described in usrguide.ps as command line instructions; anything else - such +as responses to prompts - should be put in a file which can be opened by +clicking the file button on the left hand side of the window. When it has +finished processing the files, you should quit the application (and don't +bother to save ABC2MTeX.out). As an example, to make an index of all your +tunes, create a text file with a list of all your abc files listed one per +line, enter "-i" in the argument box and open the file. + +Addresses +========= +If you have a WWW browser you can find CTAN at + ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive + ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive + ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive +From there MusicTeX is in "macros/musictex", MusiXTeX is in "macros/musixtex", +OzTeX is in "systems/mac/oztex" and abc2mtex is in "support/abc2mtex". +abc2mtex and related files can also be found at the Ceolas archive in + http://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/tunes +The abc home page, with a list of all abc packages (including translators for +abc->PostScript, abc<->MIDI and abc->Windows95), lists of web accessible +collections of abc tunes, and the web wide abc index can be found at + http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc + +If you have ftp access then just use the addresses above (e.g. to use +anonymous ftp to "ftp://a.b.c/x/y/z" (or "http://a.b.c/x/y/z" in most cases), +type "ftp a.b.c", enter "anonymous" at the login prompt, your email address at +the password prompt, and then "cd /x/y/z"). + +To get some of these on floppy disk contact: + TeX Users Group, P.O. Box 869, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, USA. + (email TUG@TUG.org) + + Chris Walshaw + C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk + |