Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

[Carl Peterson]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 13:01 -0400, Carl Peterson wrote:
> This may be what you're getting at with the musicXML idea, but what
> about doing what we usually do to demonstrate lilypond...take a
> reference score, and set it up with no manual edits? So, for example,
> in Finale you would be able to connect slurs from notehead to
> notehead, but not adjust the curve in any way. In LP, you would add
> the parentheses and nothing else. This eliminates any issue of
> musicXML translation and trying to get the musicXML figured out may
> end up being like the post a few weeks ago where the poster decided it
> was easier to re-input the score than to deal with converting
> software.

We have  just crossed in the post on this issue. We would need willing
owners of proprietary programs to do signifcant work ...

Finale and Sibelius offer 30-day trial versions of their software, and Finale has a free version of their software, Notepad (http://www.finalemusic.com/products/finale-notepad/) that is mainly limited in number of instruments and export options.