The LilyPond distribution does indeed contain a program called
abc2ly, see the section on "Converting from other formats in the
LilyPond manual.
However, if you use the new installation package for Windows, there
are some extra tricks needed to run the extra programs like convert-ly
and abc2ly, since they rely on the program Python that isn't included
in the installation (at least as far as I know) see the mailing list
archives for more information.
/Mats
Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote:
Richard-
If you know anything about abc files? It's a system mostly for trad
(read folk) music usually single line though it is more flexible than
that. Anyway the 'programing' is similar, rather simple and then you
just need a program to translate it to notation.
Again similar to the convert.ly part of lily except lily doesn't read
abc files.
Tabledit does and it's something else that you could be familar with
as it is both a notation/guitar program and does some of what lily
does too.