Re: format conversion questions

[Atte André Jensen]

Darius Blasband wrote:

> We are currently looking at the possibility of using Lilypond as 
> typesetting back-end for Finale.

Sounds very interresting, at least I know now that serious people is
taking this seriously :-)

> The Finale export of MusicXML seems to be decent (There was a bad glitch 
> with old Finale 2005 versions though) and importing it
> in Sibelius gives appropriate results, except for percussion stuff, 
> violin markups, rolled chords. There might be other defects in Sibelius's
> Finale's importer, as we have not performed a complete sanity check on 
> this.

Does this mean that it's not possible to export musicxml directly from
sibelius?

Who's developing the finale/sibelius musicxml import/export stuff, and
how high priority is this for them? Any goals as to when this work is
complete?

> P.S.: Any help at financing the MusicXML stuff is welcome... I think 
> there is still somewhere around the 700 Euros to be spent
>         on this before a "common" score can be translated seamlessly, 
> with dynamics, annotations, grace notes, and tons of other depressing
>         details...

Exactly what "MusicXML stuff" are you refferring to? The xml -> lilypond
or the export/import from finale/sibelius, or...?

I might be able to raise money, if 1) the stuff will work reliably and
2) I can get a real project going developing this idea (my initial
"share music between teachers" thing) myself. Started to make phone
calls regarding the legal side of things, will know more tomorrow...

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