Re: [Denemo-devel] How much work to write an importer for this attached format

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 15:21 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:
> I had a look on the user tools again.
> There seems to be a tool to convert to musicXML. But I guess this is a 
> similar situation
except that musicXML is (perhaps?) the front-runner in file formats for
representing music in its (European tradition) written form. As examples
that I know of, Finale and pdf2music both say they can save in this
format.

> because I don't see any music xml in Denemos import.
music xml, like .denemo is an xml format, so the same parsing library
could be used, indeed if it were looked into it might be that you could
parse musicXML outputting Denemo's xml directly, saving writing the
Denemo data structure creation calls; the two formats may be closely
related (in fact, for all I know they could be pretty much the same!).
Richard
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> Nils
> 
> 
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:03:09 +0000
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > The reason I asked is that as with "hub airports" in air travel it is
> > cheaper to have one format in common among many applications. This is
> > then complicated by the fact that different programs have different
> > capabilities. The "how much work" question is answered by looking at
> > some of the other parsers - a few thousand lines of code, quite
> > repetitive, a week or two for someone reasonably experienced perhaps.
> > Most estimates like that need doubling, of course (but then, knowing
> > that, perhaps I already did).
> > The PDF2Music program could be useful (if we had a musicXML importer),
> > as PDF is the biggest hub of all.
> > Richard
> > 
> > On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 12:25 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:
> > > > Does NWC2 export any formats (e.g. MusicXML)?
> > > > Richard
> > > 
> > > Only its own binary format, midi and this textformat. There is some user 
> > > ABC export but I think its only basic stuff.
> > > 
> > > Nils
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:55:04 +0000
> > > Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:31 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:
> > > > > Hi list,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have attached two files in the NoteWorthyComposer2-text format. One 
> > > > > is an actual piece, another one is some basic description of the 
> > > > > format as a commented example.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can you give a a quick review and give thoughts about how much work 
> > > > > would it be to write an importer on this basis? I have plenty of 
> > > > > files around in this format and want to get rid of it. Additionally 
> > > > > there are a lot of Music pieces in this format out there which could 
> > > > > be converted (if the particular license will allow it)
> > > > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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