Re: Lilypond and ETF

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

CDeschene <address@hidden> writes:

> On the Lilypond homepage I read:
> 
> "Or you can use it to print music from other programs, using one of
> the numerous input filters."
> 
>   Does there exist a filter  to convert ETF ( Coda's Enigma
> Transportable File format)?

Yes

    http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/etf2ly.html

> I am interested in converting Finale
> (versions 2001 and 2002 for mac) to an open source file format. If
> there is such a filter, and if I can compile Lilypond on OS X, it
> would be ideal. Does this sound possible?

Yes, it does.  However, you may encounter problems with etf2ly, and
I've not yet seen a report of LilyPond running on OS X.  I do know
that the first versions of gcc on OS X were a bit broken wrt c++
compilation.

Good luck,
Jan.

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