>From a quick look at the web page, it looks like the XML "standard" is not
supported by Finale, but rather there is a convertor from MusicXML to Finale
(quite a big difference - I don't think that Coda has signed onto this
format). I have seen at least a dozen XML formats for symbolic music
representation over the last two years and they have all been either
incomplete or just not caught on. This is a harder problem than it seems at
first. Supporting basic music notation is fairly straightforward, but
providing all of the functionality to support complex, modern notation is
difficult. See Guido for a format that does a good job at the harder parts
of notation - http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/AFS/CM/GUIDO/ - and my
project for an application that uses it - http://mambo.peabody.jhu.edu/omr/.

Karl

Karl MacMillan
Computer Music Department
Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University
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mambo.peabody.jhu.edu/~karlmac

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Goetze
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Project XEMO, MusicXML


>thought y'all should know about this:
>
>       http://www.xemo.org/
>
>its an open-source, java based (western) music notation/composition
>program. they seem to have their hearts in the right place(s). runs on
>linux, windows and macos. uses netbeans and a new open XML "standard"
>for music notation also supported by finale:

wow. thanks for pointing to this.

tim

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