Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

[David Kastrup]

Nicholas Bailey <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 :)

To be fair, non-proprietary (and human-mungeable) export formats like
MusicXML at least give you a bit of a handle on your own work.
Proprietary binary formats are sort-of final when you lose access for
some reason.

-- 
David Kastrup