Re: bad musicxml2ly output

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009 14:52:57 schrieb address@hidden:
> Dear Reinhold,
>   I meant to convert this song to view the lyrics, but the console gave
>  lots of "encountering unprocessed blah blah", and the lyrics are very
>  terribly ordered. What's wrong with it?

There's nothing wrong with the song. But there are many problems with 
musicxml2ly:

1) That song uses "modern" beaming, where a beam does not indicate a melisma 
(i.e. multiple notes to the same syllable). By default, musicxml2ly uses 
manual beaming, where two beamed notes belong to the same syllable. In that 
case, the lyrics for the second note will be ignored. You can get around this 
by using "musicxml2ly --no-beaming feelings.xml". Then, however, all beaming 
information from the xml file will be lost. I don't see any way around this, 
since lilypond handles beaming and lyrics quite different from Finale.

2) The "unprocessed EndingSpanner" warning messages come from the fact that 
the song contains lots of more or less nested repeats with alternatives, which 
are not correctly handled by musicxml2ly :(

3) Even if you use --no-beaming, musicxml2ly seems to ignore lyrics extender 
lines (or rather, they are not present in the .xml file), and it will put the 
chord names below the staff instead of above.

4) The lyrics "bra -  zos" in measure 31 are wrongly put into measure 19...

etc.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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