Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

[Johan Vromans]

Kirill <address@hidden> writes:

> Update for sib2ly released (v1.01, 2 Feb 2010)
> 
> * Chord symbols now supported.

Confirmed.

> * sib2lydump.plg updated to work with Sibelius 5.

Confirmed.

I'm very impressed!

> Johan,
> When you reported that chords do not work, I misunderstood you at first.
> The chords as in <c e g> of course always worked.

Oops, my fault. Being a guitar player, "chord" more naturally refers
to "C" than <c e g>.

> The chord *symbols* as in "A#7" or "Bbsus4" are now implemented in
> version 1.01. The example you sent me translates fine, so do chord
> symbols in the example scores that come with Sibelius 5 (but see
> below).

What I get now is that chord symbols come out twice. Once as a chord
symbol and once as a markup. E.g.,

  <Bar BarNumber="2" Length="1024" >
    <Text position="0" voicenumber="1" dx="24" dy="144" hidden="false"
          Text="Bm7" StyleId="text.staff.space.chordsymbol"
          TextWithFormattingAsString="Bm7" StyleAsText="Chord symbol"
    ></Text>
    ...
    <Text position="512" voicenumber="1" dx="24" dy="144" hidden="false"
          Text="E7" StyleId="text.staff.space.chordsymbol"
          TextWithFormattingAsString="E7" StyleAsText="Chord symbol"
     ></Text>

produces

  Soprano = {
  ...
  r4^\markup {"Bm7"} e8^\markup {"E7"} fis8 gis8 a8 b8 c8  |%2

and

  SopranoChords = {
  \chords 
  ...
  b1*1/4:m7 e1*3/4:7  |%2

> Incidentally, what does F#m7(4) mean

Most likely that a piano player tries to write guitar chords :)

Thanks, thanks, thanks (and keep going!)

-- Johan