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CHANGES BETWEEN V1.6.1 & V1.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	Changes to abc notation (see userguide for full details)
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Completely general tuplets are now available. The syntax is backwards
compatible with previous versions.

The possible modes and scales that can be specified in the K: field has now
been augmented by major, minor, lydian, ionian, aeolian, phrygian, locrian.
In addition global accidentals can be specifed in the K: field.

	New features (see userguide for full details)
	~~~~~~~~~~~~

Unisons (or double stopping) can be specified with the chord notation,
e.g. [DD].

The automatic beaming feature (previously available with the -c option)
has been restored, although it is now switched on with a user switch
rather than a command line option.

Guitar chords can be placed above the staff rather than below with a user
switch.

	Bugs fixed
	~~~~~~~~~~

Changes in meter in the middle of a bar now show up in the output.

It is now legal to use a broken symbol > after a close slur ).

	COMPATIBILITY
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This version of abc2mtex is designed to be compatible with Daniel Taupin's
MusicTeX 5.20 & MusiXTeX T0.67 and Andreas Egler's MusiXTeX 0.51. Note that
to use Andreas Egler's version of MusiXTeX you will have to change some of
the comments in the file header.tex. The lines are clearly marked.