Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

[Amy McGlothlin]

I was just going to suggest MuseScore.  Honestly, it’s my go to for importing 
random file types and exporting to XML



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> On Jun 1, 2018, at 8:33 AM, Nicholas Bailey <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Friday, 25 May 2018 22:09:31 BST J Martin Rushton wrote:
>>> On 25/05/18 10:52, Nicholas Bailey wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:26:01 BST J Martin Rushton wrote:
>>>> What is the current state of play for converting between Sibelius and
>>>> Lily?
>>>> 
>>>> My elder son uses Sib at university, but has to travel in (40 miles) to
>>>> log into one of their machines.  I run Lily/Frescobaldi at home and it
>>>> would be useful to be able to let him work at home and take it in to
>>>> uni, and conversely print off uni work at home.  I assume the uni
>>>> machines are WinBoxes, we run Linux and Windows at home.
>>> 
>>> Any chance the university offers a VPN facility? Could he get a
>>> site-licensed copy and run it at home using that? Whether or not that's
>>> "legal" depends on the exact terms of the license I suppose. I could go
>>> off on a "why do you want to do that??" rant, but it's been done already
>>> ;)
>>> 
>>> NJB/.
>> 
>> Nice thought, but I suspect a little close to the wind.  In the end I've
>> installed MuseScore both on my machine and his laptop.
>> Regards,
>> Martin
> 
> Glad you got a resolution.
> 
> Actually, our group's music prof has a load of stuff he wrote years back on 
> Sibelius 5 which, fortunately, mostly runs under Wine. Since he owns a copy 
> he 
> can use that. It was a royal PITA trying to get Sibelius to issue an 
> authorisation code! I don't think more modern versions work under Wine, but 
> I've not looked into it for a while.
> 
> I think he's really got the message that using proprietary solutions is 
> effectively handing your work over to the software producers. There's lots of 
> lilyponding going on here now :)
> 
> Nick/.
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