James- I'm torn on this one but my experience may help
as an example. I just finished the input of a triple
choir plus countertenor piece (handwritten score was 90
pages 13 staves) . It took me most of January to do it
in my spare time and to correct 'most' of my errors in
typing.
I then took the midi file of that and imported it into
another notation program which publishes my material on
a website.
First all the accidentals were wrong. Triplets were
interpreted in various incorrect ways, all the lyrics
had to be imported and then corrected. Slurs were not
imported at all etc....
Some of this may be the second notation program, most of
it is what midi is capable of (I think).
So- did I save some time doing it this way instead of
starting over?
Maybe a week.
But it was frustrating.
The best thing about it was that I found a bunch of
input errors and can go back to the lily file and
correct those, making both products better.
Hope this adds something.
Jay
Graham Percival wrote:
On 2-Feb-06, at 9:07 AM, James McFadyen (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
The Lilypond manual isn't user-friendly enough in this respect, it
tells you what to do but doesn't give you a working example. It also
says to invoke it from the command line. Does this mean I click Start
- Run and then type in cmd to bring up the command prompt and then
invoke from there, if so I've tried it with no luck...
Yes, the command line (in windows) is start-run-cmd. Invoke it from
there. If you get an error message, search the mailing list for that
error (in case the question has been answered before), otherwise post it
here.
1) How do I 'invoke' MIDI (ie where EXACTLY does the code get written
in order to start the invoke process)
Not in the code. You run "midi2ly input.midi" from the command line.
I need to know everything there is to turn a MIDI file into a Lilypond
file. I have been using Sibelius, but have recently saw the light and
started using Lilypond (what a fab program) Just need a way to get my
Sibelius scores into Lilypond format and the only way to do that at
present is to export the Sibelius file as a MIDI file and somehow
change the MIDI file into Lilypond by so-called 'invoking'.
You will lose a lot of formatting data by exporting to midi; it might be
faster simply to start again from scratch. Many lilypond users have
reported that it was easier in the long run to do this.
Cheers,
- Graham
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