>|If you choose to upload, the method is up to you. I'm sure Bob
 >|Tennent would be willing to set up a link from the icking archive.

Of course. Is a Windows binary available? Are there sources
that could be built on other platforms? A lua script would
be most convenient.

Bob T.

 >|I want to rapidly communicate on my recent experiences with Scanner input
 >|into PMX.
 >|
 >|In my choir we often have the task of modifying existing notes either in
 >|parts of the  music or the text.
 >|And I do not want any handwritten corrections, but something which looks
 >|nice. This, of course, I produce with PMX.
 >|
 >|Manually turning existing note sheets into PMX code is straightforward and
 >|quite fast. But with a Scanner it would be much faster.
 >|So I made some experimentation with the Scanner Software Smart Eye from
 >|VISIV /UK.  Smart Eye generates after scanning (among other options)
 >|output
 >|in terms of MusicXML,
 >|which has been developed by Recordare ( <http://www.musicxml.com>
 >|www.musicxml.com).
 >|
 >|In the last two weeks I have been working on a prototype which reads in
 >|MusicXML and spits out the notes part for PMX. I include as example a
 >|christmas carol
 >|for SATB. After scanning there remained some inaccuracies, which could
 >|easily resoved with the notes editor of SharpEye.
 >|
 >|The final MusicXML code has not been touched, and everything after  and
 >|including the line "% Bar     1" has been generated automatically.
 >|
 >|Of course, my little prototype does not  (yet) completely implement
 >|MusicXML. Another drawback for wider use of my development might be,
 >|that I
 >|employed a somewhat exotic language:  OBERON from Niklaus Wirth of
 >|the ETHZ
 >|Zürich.
 >|
 >|You are most welcome to further discuss this topic.
 >|
 >|Regards,
 >|Dieter
 >|
 >|____________________________________
 >|Dr. Dieter Glötzel
 >|Im Rosengarten 27
 >|64367 Mühltal
 >|Tel.: 06151 / 360 82 72

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