Re: Joy of Klez--unsolicited praise

[Richard Schoeller <schoeller...>]

Hey, never mind!  I just found out that LilyPond has a converter from
Finale ETF format into LilyPond.  So, I guess I could deal with Finale.

Of course the author of LilyPond is a serious free software bigot and
adamantly refuses to write a converter from his format to one for a
proprietary publishing tool.

Dick

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 21:11, Richard Schoeller wrote:
> Of course the problem with Sibelius or Finale format is that you would
> have to be using a computer that can run programs that can deal with
> those formats.  The nice thing about PDF or MIDI is that support for
> them is that support for them is ubiquitous.
> 
> Of course MIDI doesn't retain the typesetting information and PDF
> doesn't contain the musical information.  MusicXML looks pretty
> promising.  The latest version of Finale can produce this and there are
> about 10 other programs that support it and the number is growing.  One
> of them is SharpEye which purports to be able to convert a scanned image
> into MIDI or MusicXML.  I haven't used these so I can't comment on their
> effectiveness.
> 
> Personally I use LilyPond but it is not for the faint of heart.  It is
> very powerful for music typesetting but not for non-geeks.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> Dick
> 

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