Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Thomas,

I’ve done this sometimes on Mac OS X.

If you can send me the .sib file, I can give it a try.

JM

> Le 28 oct. 2015 à 21:24, Thomas WillNot <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a multi-part band score in Sibelius 7 that I have been trying to
> convert to LilyPond format. (No, not the original Sibelius 7 for RISC OS,
> but rather the newer Sibelius 7.1.3.77 for Microsoft Windows.)
> 
> I have exported it into the MusicXML exchange format and attempted to use
> the MusicXML2LY program supplied with LilyPond with no luck.
> It will read the XML file but then spit out a bunch of complaints, but no
> LilyPond file is produced!
> I tried splitting a single instrument's part from the main Sibelius file,
> then exporting just that and running MusicXML2LY but that didn't even get
> rid of any of the errors, never mind produce a file!
> I read elsewhere someone having this same problem recently with the same
> versions of Sibelius and LilyPond I am using (7.1.3.77 and 2.18.2,
> respectively), and they were suggested to try Denemo, which apparently uses
> its own methods for conversion and its own of LilyPond.  I'd never used it
> before, but I gave it a shot, and it's a really bizzarre program in every
> way, especially on Windows, but I figured it out and was able to actually
> produce a file!  It does the conversion its own way adding a lot of strange
> wrappers, which can be easily removed, however my biggest problem is that
> everything is converted in absolute mode.  If I were using the regular
> LilyPond MusicXML2LY program, I would simply run it with the -r option, but
> I don't see how this can be done in Denemo.
> It also adds staccato and other markings with "-\staccato" or "-\markup" - I
> don't know the purpose of the hyphen, but it makes the file fail if your
> remove Denemo's weird wrappers and other commands.  This should be
> changeable with Find & Replace, but still my point is that it'd be nice if
> LilyPond 2.18.2's MusicXML2LY just worked! :P
> 
> Of course I could manually remove all the octave markings but there are
> about seventeen pages of music I'm working with so I'd love to hear of an
> easier way.
> 
> Thanks,
>    Thomas
> 
> 
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