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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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