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This is a set of English Country Dance tunes used in Santa Cruz. It is a
combination of tunes used by Prankstyrs and Newcastle, and contains some
tunes from both groups.
The main way to process this is to execute "make all" or "make K1 K2 K3..."
where each K1 is a key or instrument name. Look at the Makefile for a list
of all the possibilities. But this will just call tools/abc2pdf.sh with a
different set of parameters. Inspect this really ugly shell script if you
have a strong heart.
The abc source is somewhat eccentric. You won't be able to use it on its
own, as it has a few extra notations for violin and clarinet fingerings.
You could remove these and just use it as a basis for a more sensible
set of tunes.
INSTALLATION:
1. First, install the dependences. These are programs needed to do the
actual work. See the section on DEPENDENCES below.
2. When you have the dependences installed, you can run the command
% tools/abc2pdf.sh --help
to get the options.
3. Look at the Makefile for examples on how to run this.
DEPENDENCES:
You will need some programs. These can be installed on linux by installing
the correct packages. I don't know about Mac or Windows. Presumably
this is possible.
1. abcm2ps
Convert abc files to Postscript. We inspect the Postcript code
to find the page numbers and tune titles, which is less
sophisticated than it sounds.
2. pdfunite
This is from the poppler-tools package.
3. ps2pdf
Used to convert Postscript to PDF. It is part of the ghostscript
package.
4. pdftk
I don't know where to find this. It is a java file on my machine.
There is a tool called cpdf which does pretty much the same
thing and is more sophisticate, but this script does not use
it.