			      TKmicroabc

			(2009) Hudson Lacerda
		   E-mail: hfml @ brfree . com . br

			     07/Feb/2009


TKmicroabc is a graphical user interface to control microabc and
related programs to create microtonal music PostScript scores and MIDI
files.

WARNING: THIS IS A VERY ALPHA TESTING VERSION. THERE ARE MISSING
FEATURES LIKE HANDLING FILE NAMES CONTAINING SPACES. CONFIG FILE
FORMAT SHOULD ALSO CHANGE IN FUTURE VERSIONS.



INSTALLING
==========

This ZIP package includes the following programs (for GNU+Linux):

- tkmicroabc.tcl
- microabc
- abc2alias
- abcm2ps
- abc2midi

tkmicroabc.tcl (Hudson Lacerda) requires tcl/tk.

microabc and abc2alias (Hudson Lacerda) are recent binary versions yet
not officially released. But they are under the GNU General Public
License.

abcm2ps (Jean Franois Moine) and abc2midi (Seymour Shlien) are
released under GNU GPL.

To install the programs on a GNU+Linux system, just copy them to a
directory in your $PATH, for instance:

cp tkmicroabc.tcl microabc abc2alias abcm2ps abc2midi /usr/local/bin



RUNNING
=======

Issue:
	tkmicroabc.tcl
Or maybe:
	tkmicroabc.tcl projectfile.prj

At the first run, TKmicroabc should create the configuration file
~/.TKmicroabc.rc . You should edit that file to set your auxiliary
programs, like text editor, midi player, abc editor...



EXAMPLES
========

There are a few example files in the "examples/" folder. Open their
*.prj files in TKmicroabc to see how they are made.


