Re:new to this list - converting from Noteworthy Composer

[Sam Frybyte]

I occasionally use NWC2 now (and have from their early early days to
nwc2, a lot of my catalogue is at their scriptorum) and nwc2ly was
never very useful.  However (and just like NWC) using midi2ly  will
act/work just like taking a midi file and having NWC make notation
WITH the same issues i.e. all sorts of odd things.

However one other approach would be to take the txt feature of nwc and
in an editor change all the values into lilypond ones.  That would
give you more control over output.

Lastly I have used NWC for some large projects and when I switched
over to Lilypond I just transcribed future projects (not go back and
redo everything) and changed NWC into lily only if I changed something
in concept/instrumentation etc.

hope this gives some insight.  If you are used to using the text part
of NWC learning lilypond won't be such a high learning curve.
Jay

>    6. Re:new to this list - converting from Noteworthy Composer
>       (Rutger Hofman)
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:04:51 +0100
> From: Rutger Hofman <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: new to this list - converting from Noteworthy Composer
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> On 03/22/2017 11:08 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Guido van Harten <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think I am new to this list. A few years ago I tried Lilypond to
>>> create my music files. It failed, but I do not remember why.
>>>
>>> As of today I will give it a new try. Now I am starting of my current
>>> music notation software, Noteworthy Composer.
>>> I think the converting utility nwc2ly is not part of the lilypond
>>> software, but may be anyone can help me.
>>>
>>> I tried to convert a simple music file, created in Noteworthy Composer
>>> 2.75, to Lilypond.
>>> Is this forum also for discussing about nwc2ly?
>>
>> I doubt you'll find many who can give qualified advice about nwc2ly
>> here, though if you have particular problems with the generated .ly
>> files, of course people will be able to tell you what is wrong and how
>> to proceed.
>>
>> I see that <http://nwc2ly.sourceforge.net/index.php> points out "Help"
>> and "Open discussion" forums for nwc2ly on its web page but I have no
>> idea how active they may still be, given that the last software release
>> appears to be from 2005.
>>
> [snip]
>
> You might also try to convert your NWC file to MusicXML and import that
> into Lilypond.
>
> Rutger


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