Re: Export from LilyPond to MusicXML (Thomas Morley)

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 07/10/2021 à 22:51, Thomas Morley a écrit :
> Am Do., 7. Okt. 2021 um 13:32 Uhr schrieb Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>:
> > Harm,
> >
> > Le 07/10/2021 à 11:46, Thomas Morley a écrit :
> > > Not sure Jan-Peter's approach is the best method ...
> > What makes you think so?
> >
> > Best,
> > Jean
> Maybe my wording was misleading.
>
> I tested ly->musicxml with
> (1) openlilylib, i.e. Jan-Peter
> (2) python-ly
> (3) Frescobaldi


I thought these two were equivalent — aren't they?


> (4) https://github.com/de-wolff/lilypond.git
>
> Then tried reimporting the resulting xml-file via
> (a) musicxml2ly
> (b) xml2ly
>
> All results were terrible. Here I stopped frustrated.
> I did not look into any code, thus I simply don't know which one is
> the most promising approach.


If you want my take: Jan-Peter's. Translators are the
only reliable way to get all special timing right (lyrics,
quoted music, combined parts, etc.) without a lot of code
duplication with iterators.

Best,
Jean