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abc examples

... a whole series of abc examples starting from notes, beams, etc right through to some fairly complex tunes.

abc tutorial

... a tutorial put together by Steve Mansfield.

abc-faq

... a list of frequently asked questions put together by John Chambers.

abc standard

To find out even more about the notation have a look at the abc standard V1.6 which describes the (simple) rules of abc (note, however, that this was written by Chris Walshaw for abc2mtex and so doesn't include some of the extensions found in other more recent packages) [une traduction (en français) de cette page peut être trouvée ici].

A version of the standard has since been developed in BNF format by Henrik Norbeck and abc has been registered as a MIME type by Steve Allen which may help in triggering the development of web browser plug-ins which can process abc files.

A new version of the standard has been under discussion for some time on the abcusers mail list and a draft standard - version 2.0 is available. (This is partially based on the draft standard - version 1.7.6, the last version that Chris Walshaw worked on.)

Most recently, Guido Gonzato published a revision of the standard called ABCPlus. This covers enhancements to the standard, mostly notably those included in abcm2ps & abcMIDI - two of the most sophisticated and popular pieces of abc software, and the ABCPlus website contains a comprehensive user manual.


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