# abcm2ps version 8.x.x

## Overview
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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
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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
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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
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- [`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
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Many limits may be changed at compilation time (number of voices, staves, ..).

## Contacts <a name="#Contacts" />
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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