I'm not the person of whom the question was asked, but I have myself just been asked about MusicXML export.
I am retired, with time on my hands, and have for some time used LilyPond to prepare music editions for the choir I sing in - so I am fluent with it for "straightforward" choral music with piano accompaniment (I've also made up percussion and harp parts which have been required). My son is a concert pianist specialising in modern and contemporary music. A composer he knew died last year; he had never acquired much of a following, and much of his music is unpublished, and much else only in facsimile of imperfect manuscripts. So my son (who has been willed his manuscripts) is on a mission to arrange for some of his music to be typeset for possible publication. He has asked other friends (who use I don't know what software), and I mentioned to him that I use LilyPond, and feel that it is capable of producing scores which are publication ready. So he suggested I might like to try setting a piece for solo flute, which I have completed - and I then started on a much larger piece for two pianos. Both pieces are stretching my knowledge of LilyPond, but with the help of this list I have been forging ahead. My idea was simply to challenge myself, and if something useful came of it I'd be satisfied - even if it just ended up as a more legible edited score for a future typesetter. It seems to me, though, that my score of the flute piece could be published, with perhaps some tweaks to fit a publisher's house style more closely, maybe using a different font (I've proffered alternatives). Anyway, my son talked about it with a publisher earlier this week. Out of the discussion came two questions: (1) could I change the glyphs for the treble clef and the accent, and (2) can I provide a MusicXML export. On the second I mentioned that I don't believe a MusicXML export would fully represent the score (there are non-standard barlines, for instance, which are specially drawn; also some unusual brackets). I don't know whether even a good MusicXML export would make my work usable when it otherwise might not be - I just pass on the story to illustrate a possible reason for wanting to try it. Paul On 25/09/2021 15:24:12, "Jean Abou Samra" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Harm, > >Le 24/09/2021 à 22:52, Thomas Morley a écrit : >>I was tempted to offer a very high bounty to get a working xml-export. >>Alas, we already have >>https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/665 and the there >>offered bounties are not that low ... > >Out of curiosity, what would be your own use case for MusicXML export? > >Cheers, >Jean >
