Re: Getting lyrics from LilyPond into Sibelius

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 2:53 PM
Subject: Getting lyrics from LilyPond into Sibelius


> Hi all,
>
> Frescobaldi's MusicXML export doesn't support lyrics yet (and I don't
> think it will ever because the lyrics are represented really differently
> (MusicXML stores each syllable along with the note, so the exporter
> would have to actually determine where a given syllable ends up).
>
> So exporting a file to MusicXML and importing that to Sibelius is
> necessarily lyrics-free, and I wonder what's the most efficient way to
> get lyrics into Sibelius.
>
> I know that Sibelius can import lyrics from a text file
> (https://blogs.online.berklee.edu/tomrudolph/2010/09/16/sibelius-lyric-entry-from-a-text-file/)
> and will automatically apply hyphenation. It's easy to remove
> hyphenation in Frescobaldi and copy the resulting lyrics to a file, but
> it would of course be preferrable to preserve the actual hyphenation
> from the LilyPond file - which may of course have had some manual
> scrutiny. Unfortunately this blog post doesn't mention this, so I'd like
> to ask any Sibelius owner here if/how it is possible to feed Sibelius
> with already-hyphenated lyrics. Converting LilyPond's hyphenation to an
> arbitrary other syntax should be simple enough.
>
> Any suggestions (apart from not using Sibelius, of course)?
>
> TIA
> Urs


I've just done a quick test importing some Latin - if there are no hyphens, 
by default Sibelius guesses.  If hyphens are present in the text (as a 
simple - with no spaces: hy-phen) then Sibelius appears to obey them and not 
to try alternatives.

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Phil Holmes