ABC

ABC is a fairly popular choice for text edited music notations, originally created by Chris Walshaw. Now quite a lot of software evolves around this notation, most of them adding bells and whistles on top of original ABC standard, because (as ABC Plus project has pointed out) ABC is originally for simple melodies only, and incapable of handling complex music structure. However these additions are done in an uncommunicated matter, causing incompatibilities among themselves. An effort to unite all these extras is ongoing.

In ScoreRender, abcm2ps (written by Jean-François Moine) is specifically picked among others, because of its capability to render polyphonic music. You can download source code on abcm2ps official website and binaries on ABC Plus website.

Usage

Enclose ABC fragment with [abc] and [/abc] pair.

Official Documentation

The full text of ABC standard itself is on Sourceforge ABC Project website.

There is no complete reference covering all extensions used by abcm2ps yet.

Other external documentation

(This is by no mean complete, resource about ABC tutorial and software is comparatively much richer than any other notation)

Getting started

TODO.