Welcome to the Mac distribution of abc2mtex Version 1.6.1 To run abc2mtex on a Mac you will need TeX, MusicTeX, and access to a postscript printer. The TeX package for Macs (OzTeX) can be obtained from CTAN or from the TeX Users Group, TUG, on floppy disk (see below). MusicTeX (or MusiXTeX) can be also be obtained from CTAN or from its creator Daniel Taupin on one 1.2Mbyte disk. Alternatively, Paul Anderson has stripped everything you need from TeX and MusicTeX and put them in one package, OzTeX4ABC.hqx, available where you found this file and this is a much less painful way of getting everything set up. To install this file, follow the same procedures (download, expand and look at the README) as for MacABC1.6.1.hqx below. INSTALLATION ============ You should first download and expand the file MacABC1.6.1.hqx; you can do this with various applications freely available on the internet such as Stuffit Expander. From there look at the enclosed README file to install OzTeX and MusicTeX. USE === The Mac version of abc2mtex comes with two different applications which can be used to create sheet music from abc notation. The simplest way is to use MacABC which has been created by Paul Anderson and which you can drag-and-drop abc files into. A full description of how to use it can be found in the README file enclosed in MacABC1.6.1.hqx. The other application, ABC2MTeX, has been compiled by Paul with the abc2mtex source code (which is used for the PC and UNIX versions). This works more or less as described in usrguide.ps. When you double click on ABC2MTeX you get a window: in the "Argument:" box you can type any instructions described in usrguide.ps as command line instructions; anything else - such as responses to prompts - should be put in a file which can be opened by clicking the file button on the left hand side of the window. When it has finished processing the files, you should quit the application (and don't bother to save ABC2MTeX.out). As an example, to make an index of all your tunes, create a text file with a list of all your abc files listed one per line, enter "-i" in the argument box and open the file. Addresses ========= If you have a WWW browser you can find CTAN at ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive From there MusicTeX is in "macros/musictex", MusiXTeX is in "macros/musixtex", OzTeX is in "systems/mac/oztex" and abc2mtex is in "support/abc2mtex". abc2mtex and related files can also be found at the Ceolas archive in http://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/tunes The abc home page, with a list of all abc packages (including translators for abc->PostScript, abc<->MIDI and abc->Windows95), lists of web accessible collections of abc tunes, and the web wide abc index can be found at http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc If you have ftp access then just use the addresses above (e.g. to use anonymous ftp to "ftp://a.b.c/x/y/z" (or "http://a.b.c/x/y/z" in most cases), type "ftp a.b.c", enter "anonymous" at the login prompt, your email address at the password prompt, and then "cd /x/y/z"). To get some of these on floppy disk contact: TeX Users Group, P.O. Box 869, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, USA. (email TUG@TUG.org) Chris Walshaw C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk