ascii2abctab 1.1

ascii2abctab is a small script that converts asciitab guitar notations such as you would find posted all over the net to abctab which you can then convert to postscript with abctab2ps to make pretty printouts. With ascii2abctab you can take simple text like this:

T:Happy Birthday
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------5-4----------7-5------9-5-5-5-4-2-10-10-9-5-7-5-----------
|-5-5-7-5------5-5-7-5------5-5----------------------------5-7-5-8--
|-------------------------------------------------------------------

and it will output something like this:

X:1
...
T:Happy Birthday
K:guitartab
| ,,,,f ,,,,f ,,,,h ,,,,f ,,,f ,,,e ,,,,f ,,,,f ,,,,h
,,,,f ,,,h ,,,f ,,,,f ,,,,f ,,,k ,,,f ,,,f ,,,f ,,,e
,,,c ,,,l ,,,l ,,,k ,,,f ,,,h ,,,f ,,,,f ,,,,h ,,,,f
,,,,i

Usage: ascii2abctab [ [abctab]

Note: On solaris try setting awk to nawk or gawk

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