Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-04-01 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 31 March 2011 16:30, Michael Ellis michael.f.el...@gmail.com wrote: A few comments: MusicXML [...] I'd be willing to help out -- in whatever small way I can -- if someone wants to revive the effort. Mike Solomon is going to work on a primitive form of lily - MusicXML conversion (and

Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-03-31 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Good question. I suspect I will be having a similar problem in the future...at the moment, I was thinking of using Sibelius's built-in OMR to try to convert a pdf. Anyone know of a better way? On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net wrote: Does anyone have any

Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-03-31 Thread Christopher R. Maden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/31/2011 12:30 AM, Shane Brandes wrote: Does anyone have any experience converting lilypond to finale type files? I only ask this because I have had a run in with a publisher who thinks it would be too much work as all their output is from

Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-03-31 Thread Tim McNamara
My first thought is that it's the 21st century and you don't need an uncooperative music publisher any more. Especially one using software that results in mediocre looking engraved music. On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Frauke Jurgensen wrote: Good question. I suspect I will be having a

Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-03-31 Thread Kieren MacMillan
My first thought is that it's the 21st century and you don't need an uncooperative music publisher any more. Especially one using software that results in mediocre looking engraved music. +1 =) Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-03-31 Thread Michael Ellis
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Christopher R. Maden cr...@maden.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/31/2011 12:30 AM, Shane Brandes wrote: Does anyone have any experience converting lilypond to finale type files? I only ask this because I have had a run in

Re: Absurd thing to do

2011-03-31 Thread Shane Brandes
Well it looks like the short answer is that it is a non trivial procedure, but possibly not that difficult. I do not think anyone should work on the xml backend on my account. i can certainly live with out it. Shane As a side note finding a publisher has been a lengthy process that has as of

Absurd thing to do

2011-03-30 Thread Shane Brandes
Does anyone have any experience converting lilypond to finale type files? I only ask this because I have had a run in with a publisher who thinks it would be too much work as all their output is from that app and all mine is now on lilypond. I gave him a pretty good lecture on the awesome nature