Re: issues with musicxml2ly

[Paul Hodges]

Oops!  Omit the quote mark in the middle of my statement after .py.

Paul

On 22/09/2019 11:57:06, "Paul Hodges" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Thanks very much for this!
>
>I couldn't work out how your suggested changes can be applied in a 
>Windows installation, so instead I did the following:
>(1) Installed Python 2.7.14 in the system (but without adding it to the 
>path);
>(2) Used the following command (assuming default installation paths) in 
>a standard command window to run it in the directory containing 
>MyMusicFile.xml:
>
>         C:\Python27\python.exe "C:\Program Files 
>(x86)\Lilypond\usr\bin\musicxml2ly.py" --nd --nrp --npl --nsd 
>--no-beaming --language=english MyMusicFile.xml"
>
>This works perfectly for me, and is a significant improvement to 
>Lilypond for my usage!
>
>Regards,
>Paul Hodges
>
>On 14/07/2019 21:59:41, "Knut Petersen" <address@hidden> 
>wrote:
>
>>Hi Gilberto!
>>>>Try if replacing
>>>>
>>>>     musicxml ...
>>>>
>>>>with
>>>>
>>>>     python2 $(grep -o '"[^$^"]*$me"' `which musicxml2ly` | sed -e 's/"//g' 
>>>> -e 's/$me/musicxml2ly/')  ...
>>>Yes, that does seem to fix the issue! The .ly file created by musicxml2ly 
>>>does not have the encoding and strange character issues and compiles 
>>>normally.
>>
>>So edit your musicxml2ly wrapper script (the file given by 'which 
>>musicxml2ly'):
>>
>>Delete lines 2, 3 and 4.
>>In the last line, replace
>>
>>    exec "/.../python"
>>
>>with
>>
>>    python2
>>
>>
>>Bug 1:
>>Musicxml2ly is incompatible to the python2 distributed with the installers.
>>Musicxml2ly needs at least python2 2.7.0, lilypond installers provide python 
>>2.4.5
>>
>>Bug 2:
>>During building of lilypond with GUB musicxml2ly is used intensively.
>>Alas, musicxml2ly does not fail because erroneously not GUB's own python 2.4.5
>>but the system's python2 is used.
>>
>>As none of the people involved in developing, testing and building the
>>lilypond distributions is using a python2 < 2.7.0, nobody realized that
>>there is a problem for a number of years.
>>
>>Knut
>>
>>
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