Re: Converting lilypond to music xml

[Thomas Bonte]

You could also use MuseScore (www.musescore.com) which is available for linux
& windows and which runs via the command line as well. Therefore, converting
midi to musicXML goes really fast.


tabster wrote:
> 
> I´m not a MIDI expert, but why use the MIDI way if you could import MIDI
> also directly into Finale? [This is probably possible.]
> As MIDI does not contain any layout information it is not well suited for
> producing MusicXML output. Additionally, I don´t know the current features
> of MIDI files, but is it at all possible to add lyrics?
> 
> Dominic
> 
> 
> 2008/8/25 Johan Vromans <address@hidden>
> 
>> Alastair Irving <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but searches
>> > of the archives haven't turned up anything useful.  Is there any way
>> > of converting lilypond files into music xml?  If not, are there any
>> > plans for such a tool?
>> >
>> > I use software to convert music into Braille, and it only accepts
>> > input in xml.  Currently, my only method is to do OCR on the pdf
>> > output and then correct any errors, which seems rather ludicrous.
>>
>> Would the following be an acceptable workaround (for the time being):
>>
>>  - produce MIDI with LilyPond
>>  - use Rosegarden to import the MIDI, and export MusicXML
>>
>> It's probably not perfect, but may be easier and give better reults
>> than OCRing the PDF...
>>
>> -- Johan
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