Dieter, good luck with your development work, and Ill be watching for an alpha-test version.
Meanwhile I have found a good, free way to view musicxml files in Windows: Finale Notepad 2012. They do ask for some personal info before letting you download it, but once installed, I got it to provide screen images of a musicxml file, and I could print it out, either to a hard copy or a pdf using acrobat. As for sample files, I found some on http://musescore.com/sheetmusic. I put *.xml in the search line but Im not sure I even had to do that maybe everything there is available as a *mxl file. Curious sidelight: When googling for free musicxml downloads, I found the page http://www.musicxml.com/music-in-musicxml/ . It lists not only musescore.com but also IMSLP (!) and WIMA (!!) as sources of free musicxml files. Short of random searching, I cant imagine how to find any such files on either of those sites. --Don Simons From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 5:44 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Scanner Input for PMX Don-- thank you for your encouragement. So far I scratched only the surface of MusicXML, i.e. the basic notes properties. Now I am trying to decode a piano setting with two voices in each stave. When that works, then I have to think about how to distribute it. Maybe I am a bit in a Cul de Sac with my 20 year old Oberon implementation. But I could not do the development in any other language. The language is simple, but most powerful and the environment is extremely responsive. We have several options. I am not totally convinced, that I will get to a point where I can distribute an executable. Therefore I will have to distribute source code. I will be checking the follower systems at Zürich. Another option would be to rewrite my logic in LUA. But there I do not have any practice. Meanwhile it would be useful (as you say) to have other sources of MusicXML than Scanner + SharpEye. So anybody who can provide MusicXML-sources will be most welcome. --Dieter Am 07.11.2014 00:32, schrieb Don Simons: Dieter Thanks for adding to PMXs utility! I, and Im sure others, would gladly try out your MusicXML => PMX translator if you would make it available. Im sure we can find other ways to get some MusixXML files besides scanning with the somewhat costly software you mentioned. If you choose to upload, the method is up to you Im sure Bob Tennent would be willing to set up a link from the icking archive, or as suggested earlier you could perhaps use github (although I personally detest that site due to its overly complicated user interface). --Don Simons From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 5:39 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: [Tex-music] Scanner Input for PMX Dear PMX users, 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 ------------------------------- [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music -- ____________________________________ Dr. Dieter Glötzel Im Rosengarten 27 64367 Mühltal Tel.: 06151 / 360 82 72
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