Re: Need someone testing XML file in Finale and Sibelius (and Dorico)

[Robert Blackstone]

Hi Urs,

This is what your file produces with Finale 2024.5, on a MacBook with OSX 
10.9.5.

05-beam_Finale_2014_5.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

(I should have compressed it a bit.)

Best regards,

Robert Blackstone

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to add support to python-ly for exporting manual beams to MusicXML.
> 
> I managed to export the commands to start and end a beam, but that's not 
> sufficient. In theory 
> (https://usermanuals.musicxml.com/MusicXML/Content/EL-MusicXML-beam.htm) the 
> beaming pattern is described in detail in MusicXML, and when I export 
> something from MuseScore this is also what I get.
> 
> I don't see it as reasonable to properly implement this in the python-ly 
> exporter (at least for now) because that would essentially mean 
> re-implementing the whole beaming-pattern code from LilyPond (which even 
> isn't fully correct either).
> 
> However, I realized that when I have the beam start and end encoded by 
> python-ly and then (so far manually) add
> 
>         <beam number="1">continue</beam>
> 
> to each note, regardless of the actual beaming pattern situation, MuseScore 
> will correctly import the XML file (and add the correct encoding when 
> re-exporting to XML).
> 
> While I know this is not a correct export I think it would be a good start 
> and in any case better than nothing. But I would like to know what the other 
> programs will do with the code.
> 
> So I'd be happy if people could import the attached .xml file to Finale, 
> Sibelius and (if possible) Dorico, and tell me about the results. Also 
> attached is the reference image of what it should look like.
> (Note that the .xml is manually tweaked at this point).
> 
> TIA
> Urs
> 
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