Re: MEI to LilyPond conversion

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Urs,

Thanks for correcting me as to the relationship between MEIler and Verovio.

In what respect is Verovio superior to Lily, and what do you mean by 'not 
really scalable’? 

JM

> Le 21 janv. 2020 à 10:16, Urs Liska <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 21.01.2020, 10:09 +0100 schrieb Jacques Menu:
>> Hello folks,
>> 
>> MEI has been mentionned at the Salzburg conference as more and more
>> used in the academic circles. 
>> 
>> Jan-Peter said that an MEI to Lily translator would be useful, and
>> RISM’s Laurent Pugin presented Verovio (
>> https://www.verovio.org/index.xhtml), which features an XSL/XSLT such
>> translator named MEIler (MEI Lilypond Engraving Refinement, 
>> https://github.com/rettinghaus/meiler).
>> 
> 
> MEIler is independent from Verovio, and developed by Klaus Rettinghaus
> privately.
> 
>> My questions are: do you feel the need for a MEI to LilyPond
>> translator, and has anyone experience with MEIler?
> 
> a)
> There is a *strong* need for a reliable and fast translator from MEI to
> LilyPond (and vice versa) to make LilyPond an acceptable tool in the
> digital edition community.
> Currently Verovio is the community's darling, and while it is superior
> to LilyPond in one respect (and an important one for that community) it
> is succinctly inferior in another respect. Currently the tendency in
> the MEI community seems to be to accept this inferiority and be sort-of 
> happy with incomplete and suboptimal engraving, just like society
> accepted awful matrix printers for the first DTP possibilities.
> 
> b)
> I once did a larger project with it, and I'd say that while it is a
> surprisingly good tool it is not a "real" solution to the problem: it's
> too slow and not really scalable.
> 
> Urs
> 
>> 
>> Thanks for your help!
>> 
>> JM
>> 
>> 
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