Re: Is there a translator from LilyPond to XML?

[Jacques Menu]

Just tried export to MusicXML directly from Photo Score Ultimate: it seems to 
do a much better job as Sibelius 7.1.3 in case of repeats. With the latter, 
you’re bound to edit them thoroughly…

JM

Le 21 mai 2014 à 22:50:05, Jacques Menu <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Hello Dennis,
> 
> I use Photo Score Ultimate (which I bought as part of a Sibelius bundle) to 
> scan PDFs and sheet music, it’s worth its price in my opinion.
> 
> This allows exports as MusicXML. Never tried it this way though, since I 
> first export to Sibelius to fine tune the score before obtaining MusicXML to 
> be imported in LP.
> 
> So creating a PDF score with LP can lead to MusicXML in this setup.
> 
> JM
> 
> Le 21 mai 2014 à 21:36, pls <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> On 21.05.2014, at 21:19, Alex Loomis <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was under the impression MuseScore had Lilypond import and XML export
>> IIRC MuseScore v0.9.5 had a very basic and experimental LilyPond import 
>> function but they dropped it. They will also drop their LilyPond export 
>> function in the upcoming version 2.0.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 21, 2014, at 2:18 PM, pls <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 21.05.2014, at 18:44, Dennis Clason <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I have a publisher interested in some of my work, but they want it in 
>>>>> their house style.  They know about LilyPond, but it's "a fringe market 
>>>>> they are watching" (their words).  Their preference would be for me to 
>>>>> submit in Finale or Sibelius, but I'm not interested in re-entering the 
>>>>> entire score.  I'm also not interested in spending way more than I'd ever 
>>>>> make on the project to buy a copy of Finale (or Sibelius).
>>>>> 
>>>>> They have said that XML would also be okay.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And that's the history and reasoning for my question.  My Google-fu 
>>>>> unearthed a XML to Lilypond translator, but is there one that goes the 
>>>>> other direction?
>>>> Right now the only way to translate LilyPond files to MusicXML is to scan 
>>>> your PDFs (or PNGs…) with OMR software. Unfortunately these programs are 
>>>> also quite expensive and the resulting files need to be corrected. The 
>>>> extent of needed corrections depend on the complexity of your scores and 
>>>> the software. You could give Audiveris v4.3 (free & open source)  a try 
>>>> but your scores are bound to suffer severe losses... 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dennis
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