Hi Urs, possible advantages could be: a larger user base and maybe contributions from more (academic/professional/knowledgeable) people to the engraving quality of LilyPond. Offering a high quality engraving solution for an already existing community. And other synergy effects and perhaps funding. As the input is further disentangled from the output, users could use any input tool that supports MEI and still can get LilyPond output. That way we could have a GUI input method (which I presume exists for MEI) for free. That's what comes to my mind.
Me personally, I don't see the point in creating MEI files. I like the LilyPond input language. It is a concise and human readable representation of the music. I can use version control (git). I don't see what MEI would improve for me. I guess MEI is rather less readable and auto-generated ly code likely, too (therefore I don't use Denemo). My desired output format is pdf – so I have what I need. Perhaps if freely available databases with MEI encoded music would exist, it could get interesting to convert these to ly for further tweaks. So, I support the idea but I see no personal advantages. Cheers, Joram _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
