Am 18.01.2017 um 18:11 schrieb Don Simons:
Dieter Gloetzel and I have been working together to identify (both of
us) and fix (Dieter) some issues in XML2PMX.
One (admittedly rare) problem we found occurs when the PMX score
produced by XML2PMX has more than 10 slurs + ties going across a page
break. We traced it to a limitation in Stanislav Kneifl’s postscript
slur package. Although Stanislav is hesitant to actively re-engage in
MusiXTeX programming after 10 years of absence, he did provide some
pointers. By mimicking the existing patterns of register allocation in
musixps.tex, my limited knowledge of TeX then allowed me to bump that
up to 14 but no more. Given etex’s massively enhanced register
capacity over the older version of TeX that Stanislav used as a basis,
we’re wondering if anyone on the list with a deeper understanding of
TeX would be willing to dig into this and try to bump it up further,
to 20 or 30 or more. Please contact me if so.
I’ve encountered another slightly related matter that raised some
interesting points. For performance purposes, I’d like to use PMX to
make a harpsichord part for Bach’s 5^th Brandenburg movement II that
has more legible figures than the only figured one I could find on
IMSLP. I naively thought maybe I could save a little effort by
finding an XML file of it and using XML2PMX to get started. I couldn’t
find one, but I have found both a MIDI and a Finale file. I also found
a free program MuseScore 2 that can convert MIDI to XML. I succeeded
in importing the MIDI into MuseScore, but quickly realized something
that seems to render any further effort along this track pointless.
Any MIDI file with any sophistication at all (including those produced
by PMX!) will have built in gaps between successive notes in the same
voice, even if there’s no rest in the source. But MuseScore doesn’t
know how to deal with that fact, so it dutifully puts in lots of 64^th
and 128^th rests into the exported XML file. FWIW XML2PMX could not
handle that, possibly because PMX can’t really do 128^th rests. As for
the Finale file, MuseScore won’t input it, and I don’t know of any
other free S/W I could use to convert it to XML. The good news is that
the movement is not very long and making the PMX from scratch will not
be too difficult.
--Don Simons
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Hi Don,
I have made some good experience with XML2PMX and musical OCR, using
Sharpeye from Visiv.
For this I need either a high quality printout for scanning or even
better the pdf file, generated by Finale.
Then I convert it to Tiff and feed it into Sharpeye. Then there will be
some manual work and finally an export to MusicXML.
Or you find somebody, who has a Finale license and ask him to produce
MusicXML.
Regards,
Dieter
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