Re: Lilypond lobbying?

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Am 22.08.2011 13:07, schrieb Robert Schmaus:
> Hi Lilyponderers,
>
> I agree with Joseph - let's not blow this out of proportion and start
> creating conspiracies. of course I also agree with everyone else that
> this ist simply annoying and stupid, not to mention unprofessional, on
> part of the contest organisers.
>
> who, by the way, replied to my request why specifically they ask for
> sibelius or finale. here's what they wote:
> > The winner composition will be played in concert
> > and edited. I hope you understand the implications of it.
This is a situation one can blame, but he will not change it by moarning 
and cheating.
So again: if lilypond would be able to export musicXML one can say, hey 
why don't you take musicXML, Finale and Sibelius should be able to 
import this kind of file.
The resulting file won't look as beautiful as the lilypond output, but 
should'nt it be possible just to write out all notes, clefs, time sigs 
and key sigs to a file, that might have music-xml-format?
I did not have a deeper look into it (and don't remember, were its 
found), but I saw the export function in lily 2.15 wich generates 
textfiles with note-numbers and lengths. So it should be possible.
I would'nt export the fine layout into other programs, because this will 
not work ever and would need very tricky two-pass execution.
Does anyone know, what happens, if someone uses a sib-generated xml in 
finale?

Cheers, Jan-Peter