Re: musicxml2ly

[Jonathan Kulp]

Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Reading about improved MusicXML support for Lilypond 2.11.64 I decided 
> to play around with the musicxml2ly tool a bit. I downloaded the 
> collection of 18 MusicXML examples from
>  
> 	http://www.recordare.com/xml/samples.html
>
> and processed them with musicxml2ly. Then I processed the resulting *.ly 
> files with Lilypond (version 2.11.64).
>
> I will not describe in detail here what the results were. Some examples 
> showed good results, some showed really obvious typestting errors, some 
> examples exited with error messages when processed by Lilypond. Everyone 

I did a similar test with some of my own scores exported from Finale to 
musicXML a while back with pretty good results.  The most common problem 
was duplication of dynamic markings--very easy to clean up.  I was 
impressed with the conversion overall.

> quite another thread topic: Are there any women using Lilypond ? I 
> haven't seen them yet. )

I can remember seeing messages from one, at least (!).  I don't remember 
her name but she has a website with lilypond source files available for 
download.

> As a a comparison I also tried the examples with the new Finale Notepad 
> 2009. I hate to admit it but: At this moment Finale Notepad does a 
> better MusicXML rendering job than Lily.

Not surprising, since they almost certainly created the xml files with 
Finale.  Finale Notepad is a severly crippled version of Finale, though, 
while Lilypond's free version is, well, the only version, with all of 
the features of the full version. ;-)

Jon
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