Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite)

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:18:54PM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> Could this also be true for Lilypond ? Would it be better/easier to have 
> a --musicxml output option ( just like --png --ps and --pdf ) instead of 
> a separate application that has to be written from scratch ? Maybe then 
> the conversion can re-use some of the lilypond parsing code that is 
> already available ?

Yes.  We already know that.  See the discussion on the issue
tracker.  LilyPond developers have already examined the issue and
posted a roadmap of how a programmer would go about writing this.

The problem is that nobody is interested in doing it.

- Graham