I was just going to suggest MuseScore. Honestly, it’s my go to for importing random file types and exporting to XML
Sent from my iPad > On Jun 1, 2018, at 8:33 AM, Nicholas Bailey <nicholas.bai...@glasgow.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> On Friday, 25 May 2018 22:09:31 BST J Martin Rushton wrote: >>> On 25/05/18 10:52, Nicholas Bailey wrote: >>>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:26:01 BST J Martin Rushton wrote: >>>> What is the current state of play for converting between Sibelius and >>>> Lily? >>>> >>>> My elder son uses Sib at university, but has to travel in (40 miles) to >>>> log into one of their machines. I run Lily/Frescobaldi at home and it >>>> would be useful to be able to let him work at home and take it in to >>>> uni, and conversely print off uni work at home. I assume the uni >>>> machines are WinBoxes, we run Linux and Windows at home. >>> >>> Any chance the university offers a VPN facility? Could he get a >>> site-licensed copy and run it at home using that? Whether or not that's >>> "legal" depends on the exact terms of the license I suppose. I could go >>> off on a "why do you want to do that??" rant, but it's been done already >>> ;) >>> >>> NJB/. >> >> Nice thought, but I suspect a little close to the wind. In the end I've >> installed MuseScore both on my machine and his laptop. >> Regards, >> Martin > > Glad you got a resolution. > > Actually, our group's music prof has a load of stuff he wrote years back on > Sibelius 5 which, fortunately, mostly runs under Wine. Since he owns a copy > he > can use that. It was a royal PITA trying to get Sibelius to issue an > authorisation code! I don't think more modern versions work under Wine, but > I've not looked into it for a while. > > I think he's really got the message that using proprietary solutions is > effectively handing your work over to the software producers. There's lots of > lilyponding going on here now :) > > Nick/. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
