Re: Absurd thing to do

[Tim McNamara]

My first thought is that it's the 21st century and you don't need an 
uncooperative music publisher any more.  Especially one using software that 
results in mediocre looking engraved music.


On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Frauke Jurgensen wrote:

> Good question. I suspect I will be having a similar problem in the
> future...at the moment, I was thinking of using Sibelius's built-in
> OMR to try to convert a pdf. Anyone know of a better way?
> 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Shane Brandes <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Does anyone have any experience converting lilypond to finale type
>> files? I only ask this because I have had a run in with a publisher
>> who thinks it would be too much work as all their output is from that
>> app and all mine is now on lilypond. I gave him a pretty good lecture
>> on the awesome nature of Lilypond, but to no avail. Not that it would
>> change our other argument (I am an "obsolete" composer), but I want to
>> at least abolish that one if possible. I suspect it is possible to run
>> a .ly into an .xml and then import it somehow but have not had the
>> opportunity to try it out myself. Nor do I really want to.