Runabc.tcl

Runabc is a graphical user interface to several command line driven programs for processing abc files. It is written in Tcl/Tk script and will run on any computer or operating system in which Tcl/Tk is installed. This includes Windows, Unix, Linux and Macintosh. The script now provides graphical user interfaces to abc2abc, abc2midi, abc2ps, abcm2ps and yaps. You also need a midi player and a postscript viewer. If you are running on Windows (95,98, ME, NT 4, 2000) or Linux on the i386 you can get many of the executables here and also from the web site The ABC Plus Homepage. For other systems you will probably need to download the sources and compile them yourself. The link below illustrates the operation of this program. The link install.html provides links to web sites where you can get the various components to run the program.

runabc.html describes what this program does. You can also download the Adobe pdf file runabc.pdf which contains the same documentation. (Right click instead of left click and save to a file.)

install.html for instructions on installing runabc.tcl and supporting packages.

You can download the latest version of runabc.tcl here
runabc.zip
1.672 August 21 2009
runabc.exe
1.672 August 21 2009
runabc.kit
1.672 August 21 2008
runabc.exe has Tcl/Tk built in for Windows users who do not wish to install Tcl/Tk 8.5 on their system. Runabc.exe was now created using tclkit (http://www.equi4.com/tclkit.html) instead of freewrap (http://freewrap.sourceforge.net/). It is no longer necessary to compact it with winzip. It is ready to run. First save it to your hard drive and then run (no installs).

runabc.kit will run without tcl/tk on almost any system where tclkit has been installed. See install.html for details.

abcMIDI

You need

abc2abc 1.58 March 17 2009
abc2midi 2.32 February 07 2010
abc2ps.zip 1.3.3 December 2 2000
yaps 1.51 February 20 2009
midi2abc 2.91 March 10 2008
midicopy 1.10 September 22 2006
abcmatch 1.42 December 21 2006

You may find the sources of most of these files in the latest version of abcmidi (see below)  and you can obtain the executables for various operating systems from Guido Gonzato's web site - The ABC Plus Homepage.

The latest version is abcMIDI-2010-02-08.zip February 08 2010

Documentation abc2midi guide .


Sample abc files I made

Israeli dances
Balkan dances vol 1
Balkan dances vol 2
International dances
Esac Database

Other abc file links may be found in The abc Homepage.

Whats new: February 4 2010. Abc2midi 2.29. Major revisions to code in writetrack() (genmidi.c) and finishfile() (store.c). The new structure now permits separate lyrics in different voices. The lyrics are now incorporated in the same track as the notes. The -STFW run time option puts the lyrics in separate tracks adjoining the notes. It is also allowable to have gchords and drums in more than one voice (see doc/CHANGES) for examples.
February 7 2010 two bugs causing abc2midi to crash (segmentation error) when applied to a file containing a collection of tunes were fixed. February 8 2010 updated doc/abcguide.txt and abc2midi_guide.
Older versions of abcMIDI can be found here.

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