Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[Johan Vromans]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> It would be nice if someone from the sibelius team came out and gave
> some hints about how the .sib format is structured.  We could be of
> help by rescuing the years of work many users have stashed away as
> .sib files.
>
> (I had a brief look at the file format years ago; the problem is that
> they run some sort of compression scheme over their data)

FWIW: Kirill Sidorov wrote a plug-in for Sibelius that exports the
current score in some XML format. An additional tool (written in Ruby)
postprocesses the XML and produces very useful LilyPond source.

I use it often to convert Sibelius scores to LP. 

Unfortunately, Kirill has had to change priorities but I can share my
(slightly enhanced) version of the tools.

-- Johan