Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

(Apologies to David, I hit "Reply" instead of "Reply List" when first writing 
this response.)

On 02/22/2013 12:10 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> If the file format describes exactly how the finished score will appear,
> what will happen with the spacing when transposing?  Presumably it is
> ingrained into the file, so how will everything get retrofitted?

I think his point was that _no_ file format ever describes exactly how the 
finished score would appear -- it depends on the internal algorithms of the 
software that processes the file format.

Reading between the lines, I think that what may be being suggested there is 
that, to make the format "useful" they would have to provide not just spec for 
the format, but also spec for how that format should be interpreted by an 
application -- and surprise surprise, they want to keep those algorithms a 
closely guarded secret ...