Re: Photoscore

[Chris Yate]

Hi Jacques,

I don't know... It seems ridiculous that they have no common format - but it's a relatively tiny industry...  But I doubt the big houses like Peters and Barenreiter use either Sibelius or Finale...

In the larger world of office IT, Microsoft have dealt with the issue of everyone expecting to be able to share and consume MS Word documents by supporting ODF, though it's still a problem that some people expect to receive only .doc files.

Anyway, I'm sure there would be Sibelius and Finale output converters for Lilypond, but that these file formats are proprietary. It makes me sad that they don't see a market in inter-operability. If you're certain of the benefits of your software over another, then it's a real sign of confidence to be able to export and import to and from all of the alternatives.

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 at 23:20 Jacques Menu Muzhic <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello Chris,

How does Finale behave in the commercial publishing industry, compared to Sibelius, in terms of market share?

Le 28 nov. 2016 à 00:03, Chris Yate <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hi Andrew

 

Apologies in advance, I'm going to be *that guy*... ;-) 

For what it’s worth, I’m a huge fan of Linux, Lilypond and Muse and all the other wonderful *free* tools that we have available.... BUT if I was in any sense interested in working with a commercial publisher – especially for paid work, I wouldn’t mess about. I’d buy a copy of Windows, if I didn’t already own one, and then buy a copy of Sibelius. That’s just what they expect; and quite reasonably, as it's the industry standard!

Also, if you’re expected to give them a well-presented score rather than just the notes, you’re going to need to do some work, possibly quite a bit, within Sib.  Photoscore will give you the music entry at higher speed than manual entry, but in my experience of Sibelius (mainly the now old version 3), getting a piece to performance quality output requires quite a lot of manual work to move symbols and so on about. (Though it's possible they've improved this by version 7, and some of my friends that use it say this is the case).

Best of luck :)

Chris

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 at 22:22 Laura Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>>> "Jacques" == Jacques Menu Muzhic <address@hidden> writes:

    Jacques> Oups, totally forgot I had tested it two years ago, my
    Jacques> fault.

So use a different email to get another free trial.

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