At 12:59 PM 10/15/06 -0700, you wrote: >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.
The last time I tried it, as you may recall, the transfer of vector images and other graphical score actions was a disaster, and there was no way at the time to read Music XML into another program and have it provide the full information. Likewise, the detailed positioning information from Score is unavailable in Finale. And I don't know how much of the Midi information is transported with the file -- a big distinction I made early in my post. Things may have improved, in which case the ability to make a lossless transfer (i.e., the receiving program does not alter information it does not understand) of file among Score, Finale, Sibelius, Graphire, etc., is a good start. Since responding with the above to your direct email (which reached me first), I visited the website. I see no examples of graphical notation, or discussion of what information is or is not carried over. In other words, if I create a document in Score and save it in XML format, open it in Finale and make changes, and round-robin it to various people with various generations of different software that is XML-compatible, will all the information be maintained, even if the receiving program does not use it? Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ My blog: http://maltedmedia.com/bathory/waam-blog.html Composer "buy local" bumpersticker: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/bumpersticker.jpg http://www.cafepress.com/buy/80570307/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
