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

[David Bolton]

I used a nwc2xml converter quite extensively two or three years ago. The 
author was responsive to bug reports and quickly fixed most problems I 
encountered. However it was not designed for NoteWorthy 2.0 files.
http://www.geocities.com/juria90/nwc.html

Lilypond has preliminary support for MusicXML import. I have used it a 
few times over the years but the results were usually lacking (maybe it 
has improved since).

There are a number of FOSS scorewriters that support MusicXML. My 
experience with MusicXML and MuseScore has been very positive especially 
in the latest prereleases.

I would highly recommend support for MusicXML since it has become a 
defacto standard supported by every major scorewriter.

David


Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 15:21 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:
>   
> > I had a look on the user tools again.
> > There seems to be a tool to convert to musicXML. But I guess this is a similar 
> > situation
> >     
> except that musicXML is (perhaps?) the front-runner in file formats for
> representing music in its (European tradition) written form. As examples
> that I know of, Finale and pdf2music both say they can save in this
> format.
>
>   
> > because I don't see any music xml in Denemos import.
> >     
> music xml, like .denemo is an xml format, so the same parsing library
> could be used, indeed if it were looked into it might be that you could
> parse musicXML outputting Denemo's xml directly, saving writing the
> Denemo data structure creation calls; the two formats may be closely
> related (in fact, for all I know they could be pretty much the same!).
> Richard
>   
> > Nils
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:03:09 +0000
> > Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > 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)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >