Re: MusicXML exporter (was Re: Lilypond lobbying?)

[Michael Ellis]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

> In short, the only way to make it extendable for the future (so
> that one day we can also export the layout) is to handle (MusicXML) export
> similar to MIDI generation, namely via translators that collect all events and
> all settings as they appear in the score.

+1.
KMac.

This makes sense.  A standalone converter would, essentially, have to duplicate Lily's internal logic.  Why write the same code twice?