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lilypond-usage: Invoking abc2ly

 
 4.3.3 Invoking ‘abc2ly’
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           Note: This program is not supported, and may be remove from
           future versions of LilyPond.
 
    ABC is a fairly simple ASCII based format.  It is described at the
 ABC site:
 
      <http://www.walshaw.plus.com/abc/learn.html>.
 
    ‘abc2ly’ translates from ABC to LilyPond.  It is invoked as follows:
 
      abc2ly [OPTION]... ABC-FILE
 
    The following options are supported by ‘abc2ly’:
 
 ‘-b, --beams=None’
      preserve ABC’s notion of beams
 ‘-h, --help’
      this help
 ‘-o, --output=FILE’
      set output filename to FILE.
 ‘-s, --strict’
      be strict about success
 ‘--version’
      print version information.
 
    There is a rudimentary facility for adding LilyPond code to the ABC
 source file.  If you say:
 
      %%LY voices \set autoBeaming = ##f
 
    This will cause the text following the keyword ‘voices’ to be
 inserted into the current voice of the LilyPond output file.
 
    Similarly,
 
      %%LY slyrics more words
 
    will cause the text following the ‘slyrics’ keyword to be inserted
 into the current line of lyrics.
 
 
 Known issues and warnings
 .........................
 
 The ABC standard is not very ‘standard’.  For extended features (e.g.,
 polyphonic music) different conventions exist.
 
    Multiple tunes in one file cannot be converted.
 
    ABC synchronizes words and notes at the beginning of a line; ‘abc2ly’
 does not.
 
    ‘abc2ly’ ignores the ABC beaming.
 

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