Hi Kirill, This is an interesting approach to Sibelius to LilyPond conversion. However, I do agree with Carl's earlier message. It seems that a more generally useful approach would be to improve MusicXML to LilyPond conversion.
The Dolet 5 for Sibelius and Dolet 5 for Finale converters both convert nearly as much musical information to MusicXML as is possible via the program's plug- in interface. Dolet 1 for Sibelius is many years old and designed for much older versions of Sibelius that did not have such extensive plug-in capabilities. Obviously one can do much better than Dolet 1 with Sibelius 6, but I don't think this extends to Dolet 5. I would be interested in hearing what you can convert directly to your XML format from your plug-in that is not being exported with the Dolet 5 for Sibelius plug-in. If it's available from the Sibelius 6.1 plug-in interface, Dolet 5 should export it to the MusicXML file. There will definitely be lossiness going from Sibelius to an intermediate format, and from that intermediate format to LilyPond. But I think the lossiness will be minimized if that intermediate format is MusicXML produced by our latest Dolet plug-ins. The focus of the development could then be on reducing the lossiness of MusicXML to LilyPond conversions. That would make things work better for all programs - commercial programs like Finale or Sibelius, or free programs like MuseScore. Best regards, Michael Good Recordare LLC _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user