Re: MEI to LilyPond conversion

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:17 AM Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am Dienstag, den 21.01.2020, 10:09 +0100 schrieb Jacques Menu:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > MEI has been mentionned at the Salzburg conference as more and more
> > used in the academic circles.
> >
> > Jan-Peter said that an MEI to Lily translator would be useful, and
> > RISM’s Laurent Pugin presented Verovio (
> > https://www.verovio.org/index.xhtml), which features an XSL/XSLT such
> > translator named MEIler (MEI Lilypond Engraving Refinement,
> > https://github.com/rettinghaus/meiler).
> >
>
> MEIler is independent from Verovio, and developed by Klaus Rettinghaus
> privately.
>
> > My questions are: do you feel the need for a MEI to LilyPond
> > translator, and has anyone experience with MEIler?
>
> a)
> There is a *strong* need for a reliable and fast translator from MEI to
> LilyPond (and vice versa) to make LilyPond an acceptable tool in the
> digital edition community.

You can of course take a more circuitous route with MusicXML as an
intermediary.  For MusicXML to MEI there exist packages like this:
https://github.com/gburlet/musicxml-mei-conversion

David