The potential need has gone away now - my Sibelius user has told me that he uses ScoreMuse to export the PDF into a suitable format for Sibelius. Looks to me like an expensive way of doing it, but if he can afford Sibelius he can probably afford ScoreMuse as well. I agree that exchanging music information between different engravers is an extremely complex problem and I don't underestimate the difficulty. I tried Jan-Peter's code on Github, but it seems to be broken on recent versions of LilyPond. I'm told it works on 19.0 but I don't have that version any more. And I don't have a contact for him to ask - is he on this mailing list?
Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 8:05:12 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 05/10/2021 à 13:08, Peter Toye a écrit : >> Sorry - edited subject to get the linking correct >> Harm, >> https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/42315/lilypond-to-musicxml-to-sibelius#73706 >> > >> <https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/42315/lilypond-to-musicxml-to-sibelius#73706> >> has > a discussion about this as well. I've started looking at > the >> OpenLilyLib solution at the bottom of the thread but it doesn't > work on >> later versions of LilyPond. >> It would seem to me that using LP's parsing mechanisms is the right > way to >> go about it, and I'd offer to help if my health allowed. Is > there anyone >> on this mailing list who knows about it? > About the parsing? Certainly, but the potentiel > project spans many different areas of LilyPond. > And he design space is vast. > With Jacques Menu, we some had private discussions > about this. It may be feasible to implement XML export > by utilizing Jacque's musicformats library (see > his post). So far I only have rough ideas about > the LilyPond part, and it is not my current priority. > I think the most advanced solution so far is Jan-Peter's > https://github.com/openlilylib/lilypond-export > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2018-10/msg00068.html > (CCing him). One could start off from that. >> It's something I will probably need soon. > By do means do try to help out, but don't > hold your breathe for it. It is a large > endeavor. > Best, > Jean
