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Re: Google Summer of Code 2015
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Google Summer of Code 2015 |
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Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:57:03 +0100 |
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"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: "David Garfinkle" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 9:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2015
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>> Actually anything. LilyPond does neither export nor import MusicXML.
>
> It does import it, albeit probably not perfectly:
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/invoking-musicxml2ly
No, as I said, that is not LilyPond importing MusicXML but rather a
Python utility producing a LilyPond file (one with older syntax if I am
not mistaken). LilyPond itself is not even called.
Ok, conversion into a LilyPond file is likely what "importing" is
sort-of about. But what would be nicer in my book is if LilyPond read
and _interpreted_ MusicXML, bypassing the conversion into whatever
LilyPond input language dialect altogether. That would be quite more
robust and long-term dependable.
Sort of like how GhostScript these days gets to _interpret_ rather more
PDF files than PostScript files. It does not really bother converting
them into PostScript form first. The xpdf and/or poppler suite may have
a "true" pdftops program that isn't a PostScript interpreter supporting
a different input syntax. Which also has its place.
But in our case I think we'd be better off by focusing on teaching
MusicXML straight to LilyPond.
--
David Kastrup
- Google Summer of Code 2015, David Garfinkle, 2015/03/04
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Paul Morris, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, David Kastrup, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Phil Holmes, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015,
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- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Urs Liska, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Paul Morris, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Paul Morris, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Urs Liska, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Paul Morris, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Urs Liska, 2015/03/05
- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, David Kastrup, 2015/03/05
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- Re: Google Summer of Code 2015, Georgy Frolov, 2015/03/07
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