Re: [Denemo-devel] How much work to write an importer for this attached format

[Richard Shann]

The reason I asked is that as with "hub airports" in air travel it is
cheaper to have one format in common among many applications. This is
then complicated by the fact that different programs have different
capabilities. The "how much work" question is answered by looking at
some of the other parsers - a few thousand lines of code, quite
repetitive, a week or two for someone reasonably experienced perhaps.
Most estimates like that need doubling, of course (but then, knowing
that, perhaps I already did).
The PDF2Music program could be useful (if we had a musicXML importer),
as PDF is the biggest hub of all.
Richard

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 12:25 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:
> > Does NWC2 export any formats (e.g. MusicXML)?
> > Richard
> 
> Only its own binary format, midi and this textformat. There is some user ABC 
> export but I think its only basic stuff.
> 
> Nils
> 
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:55:04 +0000
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:31 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > > 
> > > I have attached two files in the NoteWorthyComposer2-text format. One is 
> > > an actual piece, another one is some basic description of the format as a 
> > > commented example.
> > > 
> > > Can you give a a quick review and give thoughts about how much work would 
> > > it be to write an importer on this basis? I have plenty of files around 
> > > in this format and want to get rid of it. Additionally there are a lot of 
> > > Music pieces in this format out there which could be converted (if the 
> > > particular license will allow it)
> > > 
> 
> > 
> > 
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