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+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
+