Try contacting the Yahoo Sibelius list at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sibelius-list/ and the and the
Sibelius help forum at
http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/helpcenter/chat/chat.pl?groupid=3&guest=1
Both of these lists are populated by some very experienced users and
monitored by some high level Sibelius officials who are very
knowledgeable about Sibelius and very willing to help. You may yet find
a solution spur some future development. Sibelius is usually very
responsive to users needs.
Richard Smith
http://www.rgsmithmusic.com
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
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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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