Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Michael Good wrote:

> There will definitely be lossiness going from Sibelius to an intermediate
> format, and from that intermediate format to LilyPond. But I think the
> lossiness will be minimized if that intermediate format is MusicXML produced
> by our latest Dolet plug-ins. The focus of the development could then be on
> reducing the lossiness of MusicXML to LilyPond conversions. That would make
> things work better for all programs - commercial programs like Finale or
> Sibelius, or free programs like MuseScore.

It would make things even much better if the Dolet plugins would be free 
or at least cost much less than they do now. Then more people will start 
using it, more bugs will be revealed, and feature requests will be 
reported, more bugs will be fixed, and development speed will be increased 
drastically. For example, how many people in this mailinglist actually 
bought the Dolet plugin for Sibelius ?

Everyone has his own preferred music scoring tool. For me that is 
Lilypond, for others this may be Sibelius, or Finale, or MuseScore. 
MusicXML was and still is a great idea aiming to provide a way to exchange 
scores between all these tools. I just don't hope MusicXML will be like 
Esperanto: The Universal Language that practically no one really uses.

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Martin