Re: producing "archival" scores

[Bart Kummel]

Hi List,

I just read this very interesting discussion. I don't think this is a problem that will easily be solved. In fact, this is not a Lilypond- or even music notation-specific problem. Similar cases exist for all other file formats. (For example: how future proof is Microsoft's .doc format?) 

However, I just want to add another possible direction for a solution. I recently came across a project called XSugar  (www.brics.dk/xsugar/
). It's a tool that gives the possibility to transform between XML and non-XML formats in two directions. (Unlike XSLT, which can do a transformation from XML to non-XML, but not the other way around.) I think it should be possible to write a XSugar grammar for converting Lilypond format to MusicXML and back. Unfortunately I don't have the time to investigate this, but perhaps someone else has...

Best regards,
Bart Kummel, Hilversum, The Netherlands

On 4/12/07, Valentin Villenave < address@hidden> wrote:

2007/4/12, Stuart Pullinger < address@hidden>:

> In conclusion: SVG provide an alternative to PDF which may be more
> future-proof provided that you are prepared for patchy support in
> current browsers.

...and provided that multi-pages SVG support is not yet really
available, which makes it rather unsuitable for musical purposes (as
you may know it, most of scores tend to make more than one page ;-)
...though it would indeed be a very good idea to design some special
music-oriented SVG-like vector graphics format.

(PS. Thank you so much Cameron for the link: I didn't knew about this
interview but it's been a pleasure to discover it; I perfectly agree
with Jan and Han-Wen about all of it, particularly their vision of
MusicXML weakness and superficiality.)

Regards,
Valentin Villenave.


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