Hello Alex, you don't have to apologize for this question! It comes up every now and then, but has not been answered satisfyingly yet. My answers to your questions are: 1. Yes 2. I wrote a rudimentary engraver-based solution last year which is waiting for clean-up and completion to support MEI, MusicXML, Humdrum, LilyPond (!) and any other format for which an export-module with a defined API exists. https://github.com/jpvoigt/lilypond-export/
The code in the project is able to export a MusicXML-File for a simple lilypond-score. The resulting files are not always correct/functional so this is more sketch of the idea. The base is an engraver that fetches and collects events and on score-finalization calls the specified export module with this (normalized) music collection. The collection is some scheme-structure, but should probably be better a normal LilyPond music-expression. Just a little piece of something ;-) HTH Jan-Peter Am 16.10.2018 um 06:49 schrieb Alex Roitman: > Hello, > > I apologize in advance if this was already asked and answered on this list. > I’m looking into exporting some of my lilypond music into the MusicXML > format. All I could find so far was the python-ly package that attempts to > translate ly files into MusicXML. It has some issues that could be fixed, > and some that I don’t think could be so easily fixed, e.g. whether or not to > place accidentals, beams, and so on. > > It seems to me that the nature of the MusicXML format is such that in can > only be correctly written when the music is interpreted in context. Which is > what lilypond does. So I’m guessing that the right way to go about this is > to create a new Translator, alongside Performer and Engraver, that instead of > midi/graphical objects just dumps XML. > > Finally, here are my questions: > 1. Does this seem like a right approach? > 2. Was this ever attempted and is there any work left that one can continue? > > Thanks in advance for any help! > Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-devel mailing list > lilypond-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
