Re: Export from LilyPond to MusicXML (Thomas Morley)

[Peter Toye]

The potential need has gone away now - my Sibelius user has told me that he uses ScoreMuse to export the PDF into a suitable format for Sibelius. Looks to me like an expensive way of doing it, but if he can afford Sibelius he can probably afford ScoreMuse as well.

 

I agree that exchanging music information between different engravers is an extremely complex problem and I don't underestimate the difficulty.

 

I tried Jan-Peter's code on Github, but it seems to be broken on recent versions of LilyPond. I'm told it works on 19.0  but I don't have that version any more. And I don't have a contact for him to ask - is he on this mailing list?

Best regards,

Peter

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 8:05:12 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote:

> Le 05/10/2021 à 13:08, Peter Toye a écrit :
> >
> > Sorry - edited subject to get the linking correct
> >
> >  Harm,
> >
> > https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/42315/lilypond-to-musicxml-to-sibelius#73706 > <https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/42315/lilypond-to-musicxml-to-sibelius#73706> has > a discussion about this as well. I've started looking at > the OpenLilyLib solution at the bottom of the thread but it doesn't > work on later versions of LilyPond.
> >
> > It would seem to me that using LP's parsing mechanisms is the right > way to go about it, and I'd offer to help if my health allowed. Is > there anyone on this mailing list who knows about it?
> >

> About the parsing? Certainly, but the potentiel
> project spans many different areas of LilyPond.
> And he design space is vast.

> With Jacques Menu, we some had private discussions
> about this. It may be feasible to implement XML export
> by utilizing Jacque's musicformats library (see
> his post). So far I only have rough ideas about
> the LilyPond part, and it is not my current priority.

> I think the most advanced solution so far is Jan-Peter's
> https://github.com/openlilylib/lilypond-export
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2018-10/msg00068.html
> (CCing him). One could start off from that.

> > It's something I will probably need soon.
> >

> By do means do try to help out, but don't
> hold your breathe for it. It is a large
> endeavor.

> Best,
> Jean