Re: pdf to .ly?

[Rutger Hofman]

On 01/19/2012 10:00 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:47:06 +0100
> Rutger Hofman<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > SharpEye also has a freeware version with some restrictions. One of
> > them is that it does not generate MusicXML. It can create NIFF
> > though, and I wrote a converter from NIFF to Lilypond: niff2ly.
>
> Actually, there are two versions available for download.  The newer is
> 2.68, the older is 1.27.  Version 2.68 can save MusicXML and NIFF.
> Version 1.27 only saves NIFF.
>
> Neither version is freeware though.  Both have a 30 day limit.  The
> good thing is that both work in Wine.

Even though this is technically true, the old version doesn't actually 
expire after 30 days. It just nags you, but keeps working. So, SharpEye 
1.27 and niff2ly are a free (as in beer) solution.

> > niff2ly generates quite old Lilypond, so you will want to run
> > convert-ly over its output, and it has its restrictions when voicing
> > becomes complicated.
> >
> > Download niff and niff2ly from http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rutger/music.html
>
> It's good to see this effort, as Visiv can discontinue MusicXML support
> at will.  But please use decent release engineering.  *.old, *.orig and
> *.a don't belong to the source release.

Ah thanks & sorry, I had been too hasty in making a newest .tgz. I have 
cleaned it up.

> Maybe you could host the source it on Gitorious or Github?  Perhaps
> NIFF belongs there too (fully unpacked and converted to UNIX newlines).

I'll consider that.

Rutger