Re: LilyPond to Finale :-(

[Shane Brandes]

Oh, that sounds altogether too familiar. Being as fixated on clean
looking scores as I am Lilypond was the winner in my search for
clarity. I recently had a similar thing happen with a publisher, the
response of which it would be too much effort to make the conversion
to Finale. I could have found a relatively easy way to resubmit in
Finale, but thought it was a waste and complete regression of
standards. Basically, I see a score and know often as not if it was
set in Finale or Sibelius and those outputs really bother me. The most
curious thing about the whole situation was the editor I spoke with
who was pretty enthusiastic and a supporter of my endeavors was also
very proud of the fact that he had originally gotten his music
published because of his exceptionally clean hand. That amused me
since there is no way a hand written score could compete with the
output that is now possible, and I once had an exceptionally clear
hand too, but that was before computers were more than fancy
paperweights. Anyway, how idiotically stupid that anyone of use are
even discussing such editorial absurdities.

Shane

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> Just look at the last three characters of the message title.
> As the thread starter I can say that I didn't get a contract to publish a
> piece for a major publishing house because I couldn't provide a Finale file.
> They weren't willing to either use a Lilypond file or pay for someone to
> newly typeset it. And I wasn't willing either because I think: It is bad
> enough that they (can) expect an editor to do the typesetting also, to let
> him even pay for the typesetting is just too much :-(
>
> Besides of that, I absolutely agree with your opinion ...
>
> Best
> Urs
>
> Am 04.06.2011 17:18, schrieb Nils:
>>
>> Why would anyone try to convert something from Lilypond to Finale?
>> It like converting a high-res HDR picture to a 16 color gif.
>>
>> Nils
>>
>> Am Fri, 3 Jun 2011 04:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
>> schrieb Vuott<address@hidden>:
>>
>>> ...but how can I  produce (export) a midi file by LilyPond ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Graham Percival-3 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Urs Liska<address@hidden>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I will have to somehow convert a LilyPond score to Finale :-(
>>>>
>>>> You _might_ be able to save some time by producing a midi file from
>>>> lilypond, importing the midi into finale, and then correcting
>>>> pitches, rhythms, dynamics, and adding slurs, articulations, etc...
>>>> but honestly, I'd just start from scratch.
>>>>
>>>> Look at the pdf from lilypond, and start clicking away.
>>>>
>>>>> But are there solutions that could transfer more information more
>>>>> reliably
>>>>> to a finale file.
>>>>
>>>> No.
>>>>
>>>> ... oh wait, I think I've heard of some kind of sheet music scanning
>>>> ability in finale or sibelius or the like?  If you have that, you
>>>> could try printing the music, then scanning it in.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> - Graham
>>>>
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