Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

[Klaus Föhl]

Vaughan McAlley writes:
> (As an aside, I’ve lately been learning Tex by publishing my mother’s
> autobiography. The book should look great. If I want to create a
> version for e-readers, it looks like I have to get to ePub via HTML
> format. It seems a shame, because the Tex source probably contains all
> the information one would need to produce a nice e-book)

There is still quite some reverse-engineering going on, think OCR and such.
Or such attempts as wav2midi...

For instance, one day I was scanning textbooks in a universiy barrier free
support department to allow for large print class material.
Sad to see and say, still easier than sourcing and working from
the electronic originals or even PDFs. I asked the guys there about that.

Or another guy I know, scanning music, doing music-OCR to prepare internal
learning material. Faster than keying in lily-coded music but still
unnecessarily cumbersome as hand-engraved music is no longer that frequent.

The levels of availability of ink on paper, ASCII and .tex are sometimes
there by management decision. But not every time, and if there were to exist
a suitable master format, or a set of interconvertible formats, then yes,
even a less technology-savvy publisher would surely spot the added benefits.

A wee observation: some guy/composed/editor is selling his song book along
with Finale files. Adding benefits for the performers gives his stuff an edge,
promotes Finale, and probably he goes for a performance rights business model.

Regards
Klaus