Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This goes to the heart of these programs' purposes.
I agree with the distinction that you are making between the purposes of notation and engraving programs. > In this adolescent period of music software, no set of > programs can act upon the concepts predicated by the > others. As you might guess, I don't agree with this at all. There are over 60 programs supporting the MusicXML format to some extent: http://www.recordare.com/software.html Most germane for this discussion is that MusicXML 1.1 can be used to export a very highly detailed representation of Finale files. It is so detailed in terms of formatting that programs like musicRAIN have used it to render scores that are indistinguishable from the Finale originals. Publishers already use SipXML2Score to convert MusicXML files exported from Finale into Score format. MusicXML is not "insufficient to the task" as you state. It isn't perfect, of course, and MusicXML 1.2 is currently in development. At this point, the gaps in accuracy in any of these translations tend to be due to economics more than technology. How many people will pay how much money for improved translation accuracy between notation and engraving programs? Best regards, Michael Good Recordare LLC www.recordare.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
