Re: XML to .ly and Lilypond, again

[David Wright]

On Sun 14 May 2017 at 12:42:03 (+0200), Robert Blackstone wrote:
> Hi Leszek, 
> 
> Out of curiosity I downloaded and processed the Kyrie.xml, from the link you 
> attached to your post of 12-05-17. 
> I was curious in particular because I mostly use the same procedure for 
> engraving with LilyPond as you do, starting with Finale, except that I'm on a 
> Mac (OSX 10.9.5 also known as Mavericks).
> So I imported your file in Frescobaldi, and then copied and pasted it in 
> TeXShop, my favourite editor, which processed your file without any problem 
> (both with LilyPond version 2.18.2 and 2.19.58.1). 

So with Frescobaldi you import the XML (which uses the musicxml2ly
program; you posted the .ly) and then produce the PDF (posted).
What's the role of TeXShop? What process did it carry out?

> You can find the results here: 
> 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/512573/FileChute/LilyPond-test_Kyrie_from_xml-file.zip

The 2.19 files might be of more interest as 2.18.2 doesn't have the problem.

> So apparently for a Mac there is nothing wrong, neither with your xml-file 
> nor with recent musicxml2ly.
> It may be of litte help to you (as  long as you stay on Windows ;-)) but it 
> could perhaps help you in narrowing down the search for the source of trouble 
> in your system.

> On 12 May 2017, at 13:42 , Leszek Wroński <address@hidden> wrote:
> > […] Anyway, since one and the same XML file stopped
> > converting correctly, it indeed seems that in the meantime some
> > encoding issues have been introduced to musicxml2ly (I'm using 2.19.48
> > now).

Cheers,
David.