Nicholas Bailey <nicholas.bai...@glasgow.ac.uk> writes: > 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 :)
To be fair, non-proprietary (and human-mungeable) export formats like MusicXML at least give you a bit of a handle on your own work. Proprietary binary formats are sort-of final when you lose access for some reason. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
