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Am 28.11.2016 um 00:41 schrieb 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...
The big houses more or less *exclusively* use Sibelius and Finale in
parallel, with a very low share still using SCORE and an actually
tiny share using Amadeus.
Breitkopf just last year decided to quit any diversity and to move
everything to Sibelius.
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.
This is only true in a hypothetical sense. Due to lack of resources
we only have an extremely rudimentary MusicXML export so far (the
fact that this is due to the single (!) developer working on it
having taken a full-time job speaks volumes, I think). There has
been a few attempts in recent years to improve the situation, but in
the end it boils down to the fact that this will only happen with
some substantial external funding.
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.
If I'm not mistaken completely for the better part of its lifetime
LilyPond was considered the last exit of a one-way street, i.e. it
was considered useful to convert documents *to* LilyPond, but who
would ever need anything *after* it ...
Fortunately this attitude isn't that strong anymore, but still the
resources to change the situation are missing.
Urs
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?
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
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