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Re: Migration from Finale: music xml or etf


From: Mark Van den Borre
Subject: Re: Migration from Finale: music xml or etf
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:31:30 +0100

> Form which format of Finale files (music xml or ETF) I will get better
> Lilypond file (some notation details like dynamic, key/tempo chenges, maybe
> fingering etc. ) ??
>
> I can run finale under linux, but without music xml support, but if that
> format is better i'll do it under windows :-(..

MusicXML2ly is quite recent. What's there is high quality, but it's
still under development. It does take quite a lot of work off your
shoulders already, especially for monophonic and homophonic work.

<shameless plug>
Some of the planned musicxml2ly features are still waiting for a
sponsor, though:

http://lilypond-design.com/sponsor/open-features.html
(one or two of these have already been implemented)
</shameless plug>

I've not used etf2ly, and I don't know how accurately it works. I do
know that the last little bit of coding work on etf2ly has been done
in 2004/10. This means you'll at least have to run the result of your
conversion through convert-ly to be able to use it in a recent
Lilypond.

I would also take into account the fact that etf is a dying prorietary
format for which future support is less likely than MusicXML. For
archival reasons, you'll probably want to have your music in MusicXML
anyway, rather than etf, mus or whatever.

Mark
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