Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 17:34 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 14:03 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> > To: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc
> > >
> > > Well without considerable expense I can't really test Sibelius or
> > > Finale, just report on what others have published in its name. They may
> > > have hopeless skills in music typesetting. Where these comparisons are
> > > strong is where the comparison is between two imports from MusicXML. If
> > > anyone has access to the commercial programs and can do some MusicXML
> > > imports then we could get an insight into the un-tweaked performance of
> > > them.
> > 
> > 
> > I can import musicXML into the latest version of Sibelius (7) and report on 
> > its output if you want.
> 
> That sounds good - it would be interesting to see what it makes of the
> MuseScore front-page example which I attach.

Oh, and, of course, it would be good to see how Sibelius gets on
re-importing the attached vocal piece, which was apparently generated on
some version of Sibelius. (It came from searching IMSLP for "sibelius"
and "musicxml" and hunting around)

Richard

Adon olom (L.Lewandowski).xml
Description: application/xml