File fomat? .ly which amounts to a text file with a program association. I think this is one of the strongest features Lilypond has. Regardless of the absence of the existence of a functioning Lilypond program the score can be reconstructed. It might take a little effort but it is recoverable as opposed to closed format file format crap. i still have a ton of files left over from other projects that I will never likely open again due to not having those programs anymore.
Shane On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:10 PM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > Hilary Snaden <[email protected]> writes: > > > On 2013-02-21 19:58, Urs Liska wrote: > >> http://blog.steinberg.net/2013/02/welcome/ > > > > These from Daniel Spreadbury tell me most, I think, of what I need to > > know about the new project. > > > > "Our application will use a proprietary file format... an open source > > file format is only any use if you also have a wide range of software > > that can make use of that format... the Lilypond file format itself > > does not describe exactly how the finished score will appear..." > > > > Thanks, but no thanks. > > If the file format describes exactly how the finished score will appear, > what will happen with the spacing when transposing? Presumably it is > ingrained into the file, so how will everything get retrofitted? > > However, LilyPond indeed has a weakness in as far as it does not really > have a "file format". It is an evolving input language. > > -- > David Kastrup > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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