Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello Thomas,

On 28.10.2015 21:24, Thomas WillNot wrote:
> attempted to use
> the MusicXML2LY program supplied with LilyPond with no luck.

MusicXML2ly is known to be unreliable and lack maintenance.

> It also adds staccato and other markings with "-\staccato" or "-\markup" - I
> don't know the purpose of the hyphen, but it makes the file fail if your
> remove Denemo's weird wrappers and other commands.

The hyphen marks a post event and is not necessary in this case, but it 
shouldn’t cause problems. Please give a minimal example to show this 
problem.

> it'd be nice if
> LilyPond 2.18.2's MusicXML2LY just worked! :P

Who would not agree? It would be nice to have someone with the skills 
and will to make it work…

> Of course I could manually remove all the octave markings but there are
> about seventeen pages of music I'm working with so I'd love to hear of an
> easier way.

Have a look at Frescobaldi <http://frescobaldi.org> – it can convert 
relative <-> absolute mode.

Yours, Simon