From: Jacques Menu <[email protected]>
The legend on this page is misleading: the files that can be downloaded clicking on the supposedly MusicXML icon have a ‘.mxl’ suffix, i.e. they are MuseScore files in fact: .mxl files are the standard compressed form of Music XML files; the Music XML file is compressed as a .zip file which is then renamed .mxl. As to the original issue - my experience is that Music XML files always require a lot of processing to get acceptable output - I just treat them as a means of inputting notes, and remove all the extraneous formatting, and simplify and rewrite the score layout until it's correct. Music XML is far from a satisfactory medium for transmitting formatted scores. Sometimes I find it helps to read the Music XML into Dorico and write a new Music XML file from there; but in this case Dorico sees similar problems, with five staves for the organ, and also overlaid words in some places which LilyPond manages better. Paul
