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Re: Need someone testing XML file in Finale and Sibelius (and Dorico)
From: |
Robert Blackstone |
Subject: |
Re: Need someone testing XML file in Finale and Sibelius (and Dorico) |
Date: |
Sat, 5 May 2018 09:38:56 +0200 |
Hi Urs,
This is what your file produces with Finale 2024.5, on a MacBook with OSX
10.9.5.
05-beam_Finale_2014_5.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
(I should have compressed it a bit.)
Best regards,
Robert Blackstone
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to add support to python-ly for exporting manual beams to MusicXML.
>
> I managed to export the commands to start and end a beam, but that's not
> sufficient. In theory
> (https://usermanuals.musicxml.com/MusicXML/Content/EL-MusicXML-beam.htm) the
> beaming pattern is described in detail in MusicXML, and when I export
> something from MuseScore this is also what I get.
>
> I don't see it as reasonable to properly implement this in the python-ly
> exporter (at least for now) because that would essentially mean
> re-implementing the whole beaming-pattern code from LilyPond (which even
> isn't fully correct either).
>
> However, I realized that when I have the beam start and end encoded by
> python-ly and then (so far manually) add
>
> <beam number="1">continue</beam>
>
> to each note, regardless of the actual beaming pattern situation, MuseScore
> will correctly import the XML file (and add the correct encoding when
> re-exporting to XML).
>
> While I know this is not a correct export I think it would be a good start
> and in any case better than nothing. But I would like to know what the other
> programs will do with the code.
>
> So I'd be happy if people could import the attached .xml file to Finale,
> Sibelius and (if possible) Dorico, and tell me about the results. Also
> attached is the reference image of what it should look like.
> (Note that the .xml is manually tweaked at this point).
>
> TIA
> Urs
>
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