Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

[Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)]

Kirill wrote:
> To make things work via xml2ly, one would need to write:
> 1) A simple plugin for Sibelius to dump the score in some format preserving 100%
> of what can be programmatically accessed using Sibelius ManuScript language.
> Say, dump all the score elements into an .XML
> 2) Write an interpreter to translate this into MusicXML (losses begin here).
> 3) Then run, with further losses, xml2ly.
>
> Seeing how things are, I decided to avoid the intermediate step 2, hence SIB2LY.
>
>   

But why don't you dump directly to lilypond? Because Sibelius plugin 
interface is not so good as writing in Ruby?

Bert