On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:44:32AM +0100, Hajo Dezelski wrote: > So the only way I see in the moment is to enhance the midi-export so that we > have a chance to use the music in another context.
Thats what I call a dead-end solution! The MIDI specification was defined in the 1980's and was not designed for the creation of printed music. It is true that the midi2ly utility needs some (or should I say much? ) improvement. And converting MIDI to printable scores can be useful sometimes. But it is the limitations of MIDI itself that make MIDI unsuitable for exchanging music scores between different platforms and applications. Sure, MusicXML has it's limitations too, like clearly stated by some people in this thread. But it is MUCH better than MIDI and definetely better than nothing. And it has reasonably wide acceptance: Many companies and applications at least try to support it. So let's not drop MusicXML support, even we don't like the legal issues around it. Comapare it to OGG vs. MP3. From the Open Source point of view it is recommended not to use MP3 but OGG. But in the real world everyone uses MP3. Everytime if I have installed a version of the "politically correct" Fedora, the first thing I do is add some third party repositories and install support for MP3 and video codecs. -- Martin Tarenskeen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
