>From a Fringe Coder, I like Vim (text editor). I like to code with minimal but descriptive syntax(ie. Visual Basic). XML code for web-applications I find bloated and working with it is ugly. If MusicXML is guided by the right people and does become/is a definitive standard that can support the keywords and other particulars of lilypond code, then this might be a great opportunity for the lilypond community.
>From a very satisfied lilypond user, go lilypond go! Namaste, Kevin Tough On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 10:46 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > I think this is important also for us: > http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/mei-plug-in-released-for-sibelius/ > > MEI is an important initiative for standardizing the encoding of > music, with particular interest in encoding every aspect of a > composition and its sources. I think this will be an important > foundation for future music editing, and if even Sibelius starts to > support it, we should keep this in our view. > > I think if we're continuing our way for ly2musicxml this will become > feasible. > I would _love_ to see LilyPond as an engraving tool for MEI based > workflows, and this will only be possible with true 2way conversion. > > Actually I just got a message that someone at Edirom (www.edirom.de) > has plans to create a MEI-to-LilyPond converter one day, and I told > him about our current state of affairs (just started MusicXML export), > and strongly encouranged him to get in touch with us instead of trying > alone. > This is to say that there is potential to interest academic > institutions in this, which would be a wonderful thing. > > Best > Urs > > -- > Urs Liska > www.openlilylib.org > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-u...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
