# abcm2ps version 8.x.x ## Overview --- abcm2ps is a program which converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript or SVG. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5 (see [Contacts](#contacts) below), it was developped mainly to print barock organ scores which have independant voices played on one or many keyboards and a pedal-board (the '`m`' of abcm2ps stands for many or multi staves/voices). ## Features --- The main features of abcm2ps are quite the same as the abc2ps ones, but they are closer to the ABC standard 2.1.1 (February 2013): [abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1.1](http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1.1) ## Installation and usage --- The installation procedure is described in the file [`INSTALL`](./INSTALL). Basically, the program usage is: abcm2ps [options] file1 [file1_options] file2 [file2_options] ... where `file1, file2, ..` are the ABC input files. This will generate a Postscript file (default name: '`Out.ps`'. Run '`abcm2ps -h`' to know the list of the command line options). ## Documentation --- - [`options.txt`](./options.txt) contains the list of the command line options. - The format parameters are described in: [moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-doc/index.html](http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-doc/index.html) - The differences from the current ABC standard are described in: [moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-doc/index.html](http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-doc/index.html) ## Limits --- Many limits may be changed at compilation time (number of voices, staves, ..). ## Contacts <a name="#Contacts" /> --- The primary abcm2ps site is: [moinejf.free.fr](http://moinejf.free.fr/) Guido Gonzatto maintains Win32 and RedHat binaries and some more documentation at: [abcplus.sourceforge.net](http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/) abc2ps was developped by Michael Methfessel: [www.ihp-ffo.de/~msm](http://www.ihp-ffo.de/~msm/) msm (at) ihp-ffo (dot) de To know more about the ABC notation, have a look at: [abcnotation.com](http://abcnotation.com/) For any comment: moinejf (at) free (dot) fr