On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that musicxml2ly has been noticed as doing quite a good job, I'm thinking > of adding a MusicXML backend to lilypond, so that we can also produce > MusicXML and export lilypond scores to e.g. Finale, etc. > > However, I don't see an easy entry point for such a backend. The normal > backends (svg, pdf, tex, etc.) only output the graphical representation of > the score as vector graphics, but for MusicXML I mainly need the score and > the music, but I also need the page layout and the positioning of the noted, > markups, etc. > > Is there any easy entry point for this or is the architecture of lilypond not > really suited for this?
The last time we looked at this, I think the resolution was to dump a music stream from LilyPond and postprocess that. Read Erik's thesis (available from the lilypond website) to gain some insight in the design. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
