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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
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