Am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2008 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > 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. > > 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.
Thanks for the hint, but unfortunately, the stream does only contain the musical content in time-sorted order. MusicXML, however, also contains (or rather, can contain) full information about page layout, breaks, object positioning and similar settings (this has been extended a lot with MusicXML 2.0). Since the stream is generated before the layouting stage, there won't be any way to produce MusicXML files containing full page layout. In musicxml2ly, of course, I simply ignore any layouting information present in the file, because lilypond probably will do the job just as well ;-) Since Lilypond produces a layout that is far superior to any other notation program (well, except for the vertical spacing of multi-staff groups/systems....), of course, I'd also like to include that information in the xml files... [1] Cheers, Reinhold [1] This is also my plan "B" for my orchestral scores: Currently it seems that lilypond's page layout is not suited for full orchestral scores with choir staves. If I can't implement proper vertical stretching (which produces professional spacing/stretching with nested groups, staves with lyrics, etc.), then my only way out is to switch to another notation program to produce camera-ready scores... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
