(OT) Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

[J Martin Rushton]

On 01/06/18 14:43, David Kastrup wrote:
> Nicholas Bailey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On Friday, 25 May 2018 22:09:31 BST J Martin Rushton wrote:
>>> On 25/05/18 10:52, Nicholas Bailey wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:26:01 BST J Martin Rushton wrote:
>>>>> What is the current state of play for converting between Sibelius and
>>>>> Lily?
>>>>>
>>>>> My elder son uses Sib at university, but has to travel in (40 miles) to
>>>>> log into one of their machines.  I run Lily/Frescobaldi at home and it
>>>>> would be useful to be able to let him work at home and take it in to
>>>>> uni, and conversely print off uni work at home.  I assume the uni
>>>>> machines are WinBoxes, we run Linux and Windows at home.
>>>>
>>>> Any chance the university offers a VPN facility? Could he get a
>>>> site-licensed copy and run it at home using that? Whether or not that's
>>>> "legal" depends on the exact terms of the license I suppose. I could go
>>>> off on a "why do you want to do that??" rant, but it's been done already
>>>> ;)
>>>>
>>>> NJB/.
>>>
>>> Nice thought, but I suspect a little close to the wind.  In the end I've
>>> installed MuseScore both on my machine and his laptop.
>>> Regards,
>>> Martin
>>
>> Glad you got a resolution.
>>
>> Actually, our group's music prof has a load of stuff he wrote years back on 
>> Sibelius 5 which, fortunately, mostly runs under Wine. Since he owns a copy 
>> he 
>> can use that. It was a royal PITA trying to get Sibelius to issue an 
>> authorisation code! I don't think more modern versions work under Wine, but 
>> I've not looked into it for a while.
>>
>> I think he's really got the message that using proprietary solutions is 
>> effectively handing your work over to the software producers. There's lots 
>> of 
>> lilyponding going on here now :)
> 
> To be fair, non-proprietary (and human-mungeable) export formats like
> MusicXML at least give you a bit of a handle on your own work.
> Proprietary binary formats are sort-of final when you lose access for
> some reason.

(OT) I can remember putting up a paper, maybe 25 years ago, pointing out
that archives should always include a simple text version of the word
processed file.  We had similar problems with old executables that
people hadn't preserved the source for.  (back on topic) That's what is
so nice with Lily, ASCII text is pretty future proof.

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