Hi Andrew, This reply is not about Photoscore. But there is maybe another "sort of hacky solution", which works for Finale and maybe also works in Sibelius. (I don't have Sibelius);
The midi-files I generate with LilyPond are opened, by default, in Finale and as a bonus one gets the complete but unadorned score in Finale. Just the notes. No lyrics, exporessive marks, ties yes but no slurs etc. One other caveat: Finale does not recognize partial measures so you have to make a copy with only full measures. Just a suggestion. Best regards, Robert Blackstone On 22 Nov 2016, at 11:13 , N. Andrew Walsh <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > I've unfortunately run up against a suddenly very urgent deadline, that > involves all the worst things about doing engraving work with Lily while > trying to work with entrenched commercial interests. > > Namely, I've spent the last year engraving a set of scores with Lily that > look great, but for a project that was financed by a large commercial > publisher that is dead-set on Sibelius. The financing depends on the > publisher getting a .sib file, and the project lead just told me yesterday > that I need to produce such a file in a week or two "or else." > > I don't have Sibelius (I roll linux), but my partner does, so Urs and I have > a sort of hacky solution that might work: I start with a blank sib file with > all the voices and measures and meter changes, and then the individual voices > of the score from the .ly file. The .sib file gets exported to a MusicXML > file, as do the parts from the .ly file, and we're going to try to copy the > latter into the former, hoping that we can re-import into Sibelius into > something that only requires a reasonable amount of work to clean up and > submit. > > Problem is, MusicXML is turning out to be somewhat … sub-functional, so we're > having difficulties. > > However, my partner tells me that there's a commercial program called > "Photoscore" that can take scanned scores and produce Sibelius files from > them. But it's around $400, and (obviously) doesn't have a linux version. > > My question for the list is: do any of you have this program? Does it work? > If so, would you be willing to help me by scanning in the Lilypond scores I > have? If we could get to a .sib file that even just *mostly* contains what it > needs to, without all this import/export buggery, it would save huge amounts > of time. > > Please let me know asap if any of you do. Like I said, I'm under a deadline > to get this done, and the alternative is a lot of time spent commuting to a > computer lab off-site to re-enter everything manually. I'm *really* hoping > one of you can spare me that fate. > > Cheers, > > A > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user