Martin, Thanks. Guess I should have read the manual a little closer...if I update my path (I'm on Windows) to include the LilyPond bin directory, should I be able to run muxicxml2ly anywhere?
-Zack On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Martin Tarenskeen <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Zack Macomber wrote: > > I have several Finale Allegro 2007 compositions that I would like to see >> in >> LilyPond. I can save my compositions as a MIDI file. When I drag that >> MIDI >> file onto the LilyPond shortcut on my desktop, a file gets written to >> where >> the MIDI file is with this message in it: >> > > You can not drag a midifile to lilypond. Use the midi2ly tool to convert a > midifile to a *.ly file. After that you can process this file with > Lilypond. But don't expect miracles. You probably have to do some editing > to the *.ly file first to get a good result. Maybe lot's of editing... > > Sometimes it's even easier/faster to re-write the score completely in > Lilypond syntax from scratch. MIDI is not the best format for musical > scores. > > A better way would be to export as MusicXML and use musicxml2ly before > using Lilypond. > > -- > > MT > _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
