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+
+Over the weekend I was looking for music to [Come, Ye Thankful People,
+Come][cytpc], and ran across [Open Hymnal][OH] which has a nice
+collection of hymns in [[ABC|abcplay]]. Unfortunately, it didn't have
+the one I was looking for, so I continued searching and found [Cyber
+Hymnal][CH], which did have the hymn.
+
+Unfortunately, the Cyber Hymnal / Net Hymnal folks store their hymns
+as [NoteWorthy Composer][NWC] files (see their [FAQ][]), and the NWC
+binary file format has no public specification. Luckily, a number of
+brave souls laid the [groundwork][] (source [here][joshua] and
+[here][hans]) for a binary-NWC-to-[LilyPond][LP] converter. The
+original wasn't working for me, so I've put in some time rewriting it
+and cleaning things up. I've also merged in Hans de Rijck's [1.0
+version][hans].
+
+Enjoy!
+
+[cytpc]: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/o/comeytpc.htm
+[OH]: http://openhymnal.org/
+[CH]: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/
+[NWC]: http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/
+[FAQ]: http://nethymnal.org/faq.htm
+[groundwork]: http://lily4jedit.sourceforge.net/nwc2ly.py/
+[joshua]: http://lily4jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lily4jedit/trunk/LilyPondTool/otherpatches/nwc2ly.py?revision=410&view=markup&pathrev=476
+[hans]: http://lily4jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lily4jedit/trunk/LilyPondTool/otherpatches/nwc2ly/nwc2ly.py?view=markup&pathrev=457
+[LP]: http://lilypond.org/
+
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+[[!tag tags/programming]]
+[[!tag tags/python]]