Re: Finale and Sibelius files

[Urs Liska]

Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 10:09 +0200 schrieb 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".
I'm taking the liberty to slightly exaggerate in order to emphasize the
point here. Can't see anything evil in it ;-)

> 
> 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.
Good example!

Urs
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