Re: Any current MusicXML questions/issues/suggestions?

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 16:47 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 08:53:18 +0200 (CEST)
> Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Compared to other opensource projects like MuseScore and Willem Vree's 
> > abc2xml/xml2abc LilyPond's MusicXML import/export-support is far 
> > behind.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the right time/place/thread, but I think it would
> be easier to have a kind of MusicXML-Light that only contains information
> about notes and lyrics 

well, in addition you would surely want slurs, articulations, dynamic
markings, ornaments (anything else that occurs repeatedly throughout the
music that you would not wish to go over adding by hand).

Richard

> but does not have all the technical details about
> breaks and placements. The reason we (I, at least) want to be able to import
> music data from (e.g.) Sibelius into LilyPond is to have LP do the superior
> typesetting.
> 
> -- Johan
> 
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