Re: Finale and Sibelius files

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 9:09 PM
> Subject: Finale and Sibelius files
>
>> could somebody be so kind and send me Finale and/or Sibelius files with
>> the equivalent of
>> this LilyPond file:
>>
>>    { c' }
>
> I'll send you something similar from Sibelius 7 very soon directly to
> you. However, getting something exactly like that (i.e. a single
> crochet in the score) is somewhat non-trivial in Sibelius, since it is
> very "bar focused", so I'll send a version with a single semi-breve c.
> It also has lots of stuff about the instrument, but again, that's
> Sib's default.

To be fair: the LilyPond file will get more verbose too if you use one
of the Frescobaldi templates.  And not using a template is "expert
usage".

For me, the point of ridiculosity was more or less reached when even
trivial Microsoft Word documents could no longer be expected to fit on
Floppy disk (1.44MB).  Imagine a bad sector in that binary dump.  Even
if you managed to get this to work somehow, you'd have no idea when and
how and why it would blow up around your ears later.

"Add the missing pieces based on a printout" is not an option for binary
formats.

-- 
David Kastrup