RE: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!

[Thomas Wilmot]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Albrecht [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday October 28, 2015 6:08 p.m.
> To: Thomas WillNot; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Sibelius 7 to LilyPond Conversion!
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
That's too bad!
If only the Denemo version could just be ported over!
I bet it could do alright if it would just spit out SOMETHING!

> > 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.

Huh!
Here is a minimal example which fails:

{ c-\-. }

If I change it back to { c-\staccato }, then it works again, so you're right
it had nothing to do with Denemo's codes, but it's just an inhuman way to
write a staccato, though I suppose it's correct!

> 
> > 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.
>
Yes so true; it always seems to come down to a lack of resources with these
things!
 
> > 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

Yes, thanks for that tip!  I just started using Frescobaldi last month and
it's great but I didn't know about that feature!