Re: [musicxml2ly] handling empty staffs

[Florian]

Hi again,


Carl Sorensen-3 wrote
> I believe that this is less a bug in musicxml2ly and more a limitation of
> musicxm2ly.  MusicXML and Lilypond have fundamentally different concepts
> of the structure of music.  These differences lead to inability to exactly
> render the MusicXML in LilyPond for complicated structures.

Hmm - I'm not so deep into MusicXML and Lilypond - I would really appreciate
it if you could elaborate a bit more on that? It is always good to
understand the limitations :)


Carl Sorensen-3 wrote
> In this case, the note of musicXML is correctly rendered -- that is, the
> note is put in the correct voice and the correct staff.    However, the
> musicXML structure is different from the LilyPond structure, so there is
> not a one-to-one correspondence.

I see - since MusicXML does not have a kind of grouping per voice or staff
like Lilypond-> just a simple list of pitches (which can be assigned to any
voice and staff) it might be not so easy to (automatically) decide what to
do in musicxml2ly: like adding an { s1*2 } to keep the context alive or
adding some more \change Staff="2" or whatever… 

But still -  if this kind of limitation is known, does it mean that
musicxml2ly can’t provide a sane default if there’s any? 

I can contribute a fix if there’s such a default and somebody explains it to
me… 

Cheers
Florian



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