Re: Getting lyrics from LilyPond into Sibelius

[Urs Liska]

Hi Phil,


Am 07.01.2017 um 16:05 schrieb Phil Holmes:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
> To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 2:53 PM
> Subject: Getting lyrics from LilyPond into Sibelius
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>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Frescobaldi's MusicXML export doesn't support lyrics yet (and I don't
>> think it will ever because the lyrics are represented really differently
>> (MusicXML stores each syllable along with the note, so the exporter
>> would have to actually determine where a given syllable ends up).
>>
>> So exporting a file to MusicXML and importing that to Sibelius is
>> necessarily lyrics-free, and I wonder what's the most efficient way to
>> get lyrics into Sibelius.
>>
>> I know that Sibelius can import lyrics from a text file
>> (https://blogs.online.berklee.edu/tomrudolph/2010/09/16/sibelius-lyric-entry-from-a-text-file/)
>>
>> and will automatically apply hyphenation. It's easy to remove
>> hyphenation in Frescobaldi and copy the resulting lyrics to a file, but
>> it would of course be preferrable to preserve the actual hyphenation
>> from the LilyPond file - which may of course have had some manual
>> scrutiny. Unfortunately this blog post doesn't mention this, so I'd like
>> to ask any Sibelius owner here if/how it is possible to feed Sibelius
>> with already-hyphenated lyrics. Converting LilyPond's hyphenation to an
>> arbitrary other syntax should be simple enough.
>>
>> Any suggestions (apart from not using Sibelius, of course)?
>>
>> TIA
>> Urs
>
>
> I've just done a quick test importing some Latin - if there are no
> hyphens, by default Sibelius guesses.  If hyphens are present in the
> text (as a simple - with no spaces: hy-phen) then Sibelius appears to
> obey them and not to try alternatives.

Thanks for this test.
I'll forward this info to the poor guy who has to convert our beautiful
LilyPond scores to Sibelius due to some, well, inert, publisher.

Urs

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