Re:Importing into Finale

[Joshua Koo]

Hi,

Here's how I attempted to convert finale files to lilypond files after little 
success with etf2ly.

First I got the dotlet plugin for Finale which produces MusicXML output. You 
can get it here http://www.recordare.com/finale/

Then I used the xml2ly converter by Guido Amoruso.
http://ftp.gnu.org/savannah/files/xml2ly/
I've just found a new converter at http://musicxml2ly.sarovar.org/ but I havnt 
tried it yet.

Then do cleaning of the lilypond output. The results be quite good for simple 
music.

Actually I did most of the editing in jedit with the lilypondtool, starting 
with running the xml2ly converter.
Then using the search and replace tool you can do lots of corrections for some 
of the messy xml2ly output
eg. remove extras \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 2 8 ) ,
"\n{2,}% Bar" with " |\n% " (turn on the regular expression for this)
so on..
Then I hightlighted the section of notes, and run the absolute to relative 
notes converter.

I'm not sure if the features I mention is in the latest stable release of 
lilytool, but you might like to try :)

Hope this helps.

Joshua Koo

>Joshua Kwan writes:
>
>> Last time I tried using etf2ly it did not work on a Finale file
>> generated by Finale 2005.
>>
>> If someone wants to fix that, I can provide the file privately.
>
>Sorry, I do not think it works that way.  Finale import is not
>core functionality of LilyPond.  In addition to that, the etf
>format is ugly and ill documented.
>
>If you need it fixed, your best bet is to provide a very simple
>example that fails, together with a picture of the output.
>
>Jan.