Re: Export to ?????

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Don,

You cannot call this 'lock-in' because nobody has forced you to use lilypond and you have not paid anything for it, and there is no intent on the part of the lilypond project to capture you and your money. I am unable to see how the concept of deliberate commercial 'lock-in' applies to open source projects.

Lack of export formats in lilypond is not a fair criticism, especially since there is no universal music notation exchange standard, and MusicXML is severely lacking in many respects, and is not necessarily going to ever become a universal standard.

If you need to export to ABC and so, then by all means start a project to do it and recruit participants. If you were truly locked in, such a path would not be possible. One technical issue with 'downsampling' to a lesser format is what to do with the sophisticated constructs that ABC cannot handle.

The problem with not being able to work with Finale users is just on of those things. Unfortunate.

And sorry, I for one, even as a fanatically dedicated Linux user for decades or however long, do not like needless bashing of Microsoft with the M$ epithet. That's verging on trolling.

On 25 May 2017 at 18:34, Don Gingrich <address@hidden> wrote:

> If not, then I suggest that this is a "lock-in" similar
> to that of some of the M$ programs.

Andrew