Hi, I'd like to tell you that I'm working on a MusicXML to Lilypond converter: it is a set of XSLT stylesheets, so you need an XSLT processor in order to use it. It's name is very original...xml2ly :-) MusicXML is an XML language to describe music: it is not the only existing XML dialect for music, but its aim is to become The Intarchange format for music notation applications. At present it has these features: - it has already a wide commercial support (Finale, Igor, SharpEye...) - it is proprietary :-( Anyway, it has a public license and the company that is defining it (Recordare) has expressed the willing to make it an Oasis standard: I hope this is a real intantion!
Maybe this is not the best place to speak about such topics, but I find that goal very valuable also for Free Software. We could have one mean to exchange musical information in a free and reliable way. My converter is at http://www.nongnu.org/xml2ly/, I'll be glad if you send me suggestions, opinions and problems. At present it works rather well: I'm testing it with MusicXML files from Project Gutemberg Music (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/music/) and with Recordare's samples at http://musicxml.org/xml/samples.html. In the short terms you can use it to convert SharpEye'scannings and Finale or Musedata files (if you have Dolet converter or a recent version of Finale, I think). I hope it can be someway useful to Mutopiaproject! I have decided to tag it with low numbers (0.0.xx) because of two reasons: - it is one of my very first programs - I consider it a sort of prototype. As I said it is written in XSLT and sure that is not the best way to do that (I'm thinking about something like Python and Dom), but I wanted an easy way to start and to try whether it was possible to make it work Best Regards, -- Guido Amoruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
