This doesn't seem right to me. The whole point of Bill's chord fonts
is that they do not require any fancy spacing or formatting. You can
type the chord suffixes directly in a word processor and they look
fine, so I have no idea why Sibelius couldn't handle them. Hell, you
should even (theoretically) be able to type them in as lyrics!
- Darcy
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On 03 Oct 2007, at 7:58 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote:
I was curious what Sibelius support would say if I said the only thing
keeping me from switching to Sibelius was a body of work I have
which is
based on Bill Duncan's templates.
Below is the exchange.
So, for now, I'll have to stay with FinMac 2007c.
**Leigh
Hi,
I don't think this will be possible in Sibelius at present. The
formatting of the chord symbols isn't that flexible to begin
with. In
addition, these chords are being interputed as technique text rather
than chord symbol text so it's really not going to work. Sorry.
Hi Tom,
I've attached an archive which contains an XML file, a Finale
file and a
PDF of what the printed version should look like.
Chord symbols are in Layer 4. I've included an example file and
PDF of
complex chord symbols as well.
Thanks for taking a look at this.
**Leigh
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007, Sibelius USA Technical Help
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Hi,
I am a Finale 2007c user who is interested in switching to
Sibelius.
The
one thing keeping me from doing that is that I have a set of
templates
developed for Finale by engraver Bill Duncan.
NPC Imaging is selling the templates:
<http://tinyurl.com/3anjpe>
I have tried to import into Sibelius 5 some work I've done using
Bill's
templates, but using the MusicXML export I have not been able to
get
anything that doesn't require a lot of work to restore to it's
origianl
form.
I am hoping you can suggest a way to make this work and I am
happy to
provide
a sample file if that would help.
I know there are quite a few other people using Bill's templates
who
would likely switch to Sibelius because many of them are pretty
fed up
with MakeMusic's poor support and apparent unwillingness to fix
bugs
of many years standing.
Thanks.
**Leigh
Hi,
There are limitations to the conversion from MusicXML but generally
the
files convert fairly well. If you'd like to send me an example
XML file
I'll be happy to take a look. Give me some of the specific things
that
are not correct in the conversion and I'll see what if anything
can be
done.
Best Regards,
Tom Betts
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