Re: Is Sibelius really as bad as this?

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Richard,

Find attached what I get after raw import of the XML file into Sibelius 7.1.3 
and then export as PDF.

It seems there’s no difference with what you got from IMSLP.

JM

weiss_Eb - Full Score.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

> Le 28 mai 2015 à 20:58, Richard Shann <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 20:22 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 May 2015 19:06:08 +0100
>> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is Sibelius really this bad (ties treated as slurs, 
>> 
>> I frequently rewrite Sibelius scores into LilyPond, and this is one of the
>> issues that cost a lot of manual preprocessing. Moreover, it makes the
>> composer 'lazy' -- it doesn't matter whether to create a tie or a slur, and
>> the command for tie is apparently very easy.
> 
> But the composer wasn't 'lazy' in this case - the MusicXML shows that
> ties were entered for ties, not slurs, yet they are typeset as if they
> were slurs. (That is, Sibelius exported to MusicXML making the
> distinction between the slurs and the ties correctly, so they must have
> been entered correctly,  but its typesetting is wrong).
> 
>> 
>>> (Oh, and the Sibelius-generated PDF does not render with Evince, but
>>> that is another issue I presume).
>> 
>> Both attachments render fine in my Evince.
> 
> Ah, that'll be down to my version of Evince being too old then...
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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