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Welcome to the UNIX distribution of abc2mtex Version 1.6.1
To run abc2mtex on a UNIX machine you will need TeX, MusicTeX, an ANSI C
compiler and access to a postscript printer. Happily most UNIX machines
should have a C compiler and are likely, especially in educational
establishments, to have TeX/LaTeX already installed (if not, it can be
obtained from CTAN - the Complete TeX Archive Network - see below).
MusicTeX (and/or its young cousin MusiXTeX) can also be obtained from CTAN.
INSTALLATION
============
abc2mtex
========
Download the file abc2mtex1.6.1.tar.gz then type:
cat abc2mtex1.6.1.tar.gz | gunzip | tar xvf -
To install all the software just enter "make install". This
creates the executable files "abc2mtex", "sort_in" and
"search". To do this by hand (if, for example, you don't have
the make facility) enter
cc -o abc2mtex fields.c abc.c tex.c index.c
cc -o sort_in sort_in.c index.c
cc -o search search.c abc.c tex.c index.c
A PostScript version of the usrguide is included in the distribution,
but you can recompile it by running "latex usrguide.tex" twice (you
will need MusicTeX installed to do this).
MusicTeX
========
The version of MusicTeX that I have is 5.18 from the file
musictex-518.tar.gz available at various ftp sites (see below).
Download it and type:
cat musictex-518.tar.gz | gunzip | tar xvf -
To set this up with TeX version 3.1415 on UNIX machines you should set the
following environment variables:-
setenv TEXFONTS :<musictex_directory>
setenv TEXINPUTS :<musictex_directory>
setenv MFINPUTS :<musictex_directory>
where <musictex_directory> is the full pathname of the directory that
MusicTeX are stored in.
There is a comprehensive manual, musicdoc.ps, that comes with MusicTeX but
if you have problems setting up MusicTeX or modifying it for your own use,
don't mail me - I'm no expert. Instead there is a mailing list which you can
subscribe to by sending an email to mutex-request@gmd.de
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"
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").
Chris Walshaw
C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk
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