QABC(1)

💖 QABC 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the qabc manual page — it lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and honestly? it's giving ✨ minimal GUI for ABC music notation ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

qabc — a minimal GUI for ABC music notation 🎼🦋

like, the tiniest little window that lets you do ABC stuff. no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

qabc [file.abc] ...

yep, that's the whole vibe. you can hand it zero files, one file, or a whole lil stack of file.abc arguments — the ... is doing a lot of heavy lifting there and we love that for it 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so, this manual page documents the qabc program. that's the whole intro, she's brief and she knows it 💖

qabc is a minimal graphical program that allows you to edit musical scores in the ABC format. minimal interface, maximal potential, main character energy fr fr 🎶👑

here's the tea though — qabc doesn't do all the work itself. it uses third-party software to view the generated score and to play audio. she's a collaborator, not a solo act 🫶

for now, qabc uses these by default:

• abc2midi — generates the MIDI 🎹
• fluidsynth — plays the MIDI 🔊
• abcm2ps — generates the Postscript 📄
• evince — views the generated score 👀

plus evince for the viewing part, which we already said, but it bears repeating because that's literally the sentence structure, bestie 😭

note the "for now" — the defaults are the defaults right now, that's what the page says, don't come for me 🌈

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and that's the entire page, no filler, no fluff, just vibes and music 🧚💜

this little love letter to qabc comes to you from the General Commands Manual, page QABC(1), and yeah — that same QABC(1) is sitting at the bottom of the page too, like a signature on a masterpiece 🎀⭐

go make some music, bestie 🎵💅