Re: OOoLilyPond

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On 01/01/17 23:34, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 
> Am 2017-01-01 um 21:07 schrieb Wols Lists <address@hidden>:
> 
>> On 01/01/17 19:56, Urs Liska wrote:
>>>> I think that has changed years ago already, but the last time I looked,
>>>>> Oolilypond did not make any use of it.
>>
>>> Oh, then it would definitely be worth looking into again. Being able to 
>>> maintain vector quality examples in a word processor like this would be a 
>>> huge selling point for getting musicologists away from MS Word.
>>
>> Just make sure you look in the right place ... :-)
>>
>> I follow the LO dev mailing list, and last I remember (probably mid last
>> year) it was a bit of a mess with some filters importing vectors
>> unchanged, and other filters converting it to internal LO structures.
>> And it was a bit of a russian roulette which one was applied to your file.
>>
>> I know the aim was to clean it up, and it was clear that stuff imported
>> should NOT be converted unless/until the user tried to edit it, but I
>> don't know where that went.
> 
> Several years ago I looked into OO’s vector drawing structures and found them 
> to be a subset of SVG.
> Maybe there is a good conversion of LilyPond’s SVG subset to LO’s possible?
> 
I'm sure there is. I'm just saying that the import procedure was broken
such that users were likely to get a substandard experience. I hope it's
been fixed by now.

Cheers,
Wol