Hi
I teach piano in a couple of music schools. Teachers there use
everything from finale, sibelius, musicator and cubase to abc to typeset
the stuff we give to students.
It would be nice to be able to share sheets between teachers, so I'm
thinking about making a web based system that would allow people to
access each others music. It should be possible to modify the files, so
a common central format is needed. And pdf's wouldn't be flexible enough.
I though about having the stuff laying in a mysql database in musicxml
format, and using lilypond for making sheets in pdf format from there.
So here goes:
1) Which are my options for converting musicxml to lilypond? How good is
the conversion and how exotic can the typesetting get for this to work?
2) How good are the tools for exporting musicxml from the major
commercial programs (finale, sibelius, musicator)? How about importing?
3) Is there a better way to go about this, for instance by making
lilypond the central format? In that case how good (if existing) is the
conversion between the major commercial notation software and lilypond
and back?
4) Is there any obvious things I've overlooked?
5) Would this at all be possible at the moment?
Note that all conversions should be done automatically with no human
correction to the output. In this case noone (except me:-)) is really
interrested in either lilypond or musicxml, they just want to share
music and such a site should "just work"...
Thanks in advance for any feedback, ideas and help.
--
peace, love & harmony
Atte
http://www.atte.dk | quartet: http://www.anagrammer.dk
http://www.atte.dk/gps | compositions: http://www.atte.dk/compositions
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