Re: lilypond

[Erik Sandberg]

On Saturday 01 October 2005 05.17, Bohdan Krowicky wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm impressed by the printed results from your program - I remember
> 'Score', about a millennium ago which I ran on an XT and that was a
> script based application. When you were ready to print a score, you
> had to run the print run all night, and keep getting up to un-jam the
> printer. Still the results were great.
>
>
> These days I'm a composer and I use Sibelius 4 as a composition tool,
> and the thought of learning a new language is rather daunting. Can
> Lilypond accept a Midi file and convert it into its own format, and
> then to its beautiful printed output? 

There is a MusicXML to .ly converter, see:
http://www.nongnu.org/xml2ly/
I haven't used it much, but I guess it's a lot better than going via midi.

-- 
Erik