Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite)

[Martin Tarenskeen]

Everyone will agree having not only musicxml2ly but also a Lilypond to 
MusicXML converter would be cool.

I remember a similar discussion some time ago in the Mup mailing list. The 
Mup developers from Arkkra Enterprises were saying it would probably be 
less work to add musicxml export as an extra output option inside mup, 
while a musicxml-to-mup converter would be easier to realize with a 
separate application.

Could this also be true for Lilypond ? Would it be better/easier to have a 
--musicxml output option ( just like --png --ps and --pdf ) instead of a 
separate application that has to be written from scratch ? Maybe then the 
conversion can re-use some of the lilypond parsing code that is already 
available ?

I'm not a programmer ( or at least not a very good one ;-) ) but wanted to 
post the suggestion anyway. Maybe someone will be inspired to make a start 
with this difficult task ... :-)

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Martin Tarenskeen