Dieter <d.gloet...@web.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> With my little tool "XML2PMX" I produced a MusiXTeX verion of the 1st Sinfonia
> BWV 787. Pls. see attachments.
>
> I scanned a good print edition, the scanner software gave me MusicXML output,
> I ran it through XML2PMX and got the PMX file.
>
> Then I had to do a few corrections:
>
> 1 adding blind rests (as you know, PMX does not accept incomplete measures)
>   
> 2 sometimes the scanner software mixed up the voices 
> 3 several rests were recognized by the scanner software as notes
>   
>
> In total less than 2 hours of work.
>
> What is still missing are the vertical position of some rests and the
> ornaments.
>
> Whether it is easier to typeset the fingering in PMX or MusixTex, I do not
> know.
>
> Regards, Dieter


This all seems extrememly interesting.  By simply scanning a good print, you
get the MusiXTeX version without need to type it!  I'd like to do so myself,
but what about the `scanner software' you mention?  Do you use Linux or MS
Windows?

Thanks,

Rodolfo


> Am 14.11.2015 um 15:33 schrieb Rodolfo Medina:
>
>     Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     
>         Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>         
>             Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon...@free.fr> writes:
>
>             
>                 On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>                 
>                     Now I'm typing in MusiXTeX language the first
> three-voices Sinfonia for keyboard in C major by J. S. Bach [...]
>
>                 
> What will your edition have that those present on
> http://imslp.org/wiki/15_Sinfonias,_BWV_787-801_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)
> don't have?  :-)
>
> Jean-Pierre Coulon
>
>             
>
> Often, to play a piece for keyboard, you feel the need of changing the
> fingering at your pleasure - or even add it when it is not there.  This is a
> general problem for me, and the main reason because I'm learning using
> MusiXTeX: I want to re-type all the pieces I use playing, in order to type
> at my pleasure the fingering and also the pedal and also the pizzicato and
> the slurs.  In most cases you have those information already printed in your
> score book, and correct them by pencil can be confusing.  So it is a great
> luck that something like MusiXTeX exists!
>
> Rodolfo
>
>         
>
> I just saw at
>
>  http://imslp.org/wiki/15_Sinfonias,_BWV_787-801_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)
>
> the pmw source files.  Any possibility of convertion pmw -> MusiXTeX? ;-)
>
>     
>
> Sorry, I alreay posted that question, and the answer seems to be negative.
>
> Rodolfo
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