MEI

[Urs Liska]

I think this is important also for us:
http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/mei-plug-in-released-for-sibelius/

MEI is an important initiative for standardizing the encoding of music, with particular interest in encoding every aspect of a composition and its sources. I think this will be an important foundation for future music editing, and if even Sibelius starts to support it, we should keep this in our view.

I think if we're continuing our way for ly2musicxml this will become feasible.
I would _love_ to see LilyPond as an engraving tool for MEI based workflows, and this will only be possible with true 2way conversion.

Actually I just got a message that someone at Edirom (www.edirom.de) has plans to create a MEI-to-LilyPond converter one day, and I told him about our current state of affairs (just started MusicXML export), and strongly encouranged him to get in touch with us instead of trying alone.
This is to say that there is potential to interest academic institutions in this, which would be a wonderful thing.

Best
Urs

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Urs Liska
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