Re: Converting ly to musicxml

[cab]

Le 10/07/2011 11:14, address@hidden a écrit :
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 10:56 AM, cab wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have been using lilypond for 3 years in my projects:
>> http://www.psautiers.org (this is the website on which I am currently
>> working on), and http://www.score-catcher.org (the sister site) in which
>> I convert musicxml to lilypond and then I put the score online.
>>
>> The thing is that the musicxml format is not the one most people use,
>> so I can't put on many scores online...
>>
>> However I think it would be easier to convert ly to musicxml
>>
>> (in fact i want to convert like this : midi -> ly -> musicxml).
>> Converting from midi to ly is possible, but ly to musicxml has never
>> been done... So my plan is to program it myself
>> I think I would do it in python as musicxml2ly is also written in python.
>>
>> Do you have anything to say about it ?
>> Will I face some problems I have not thaught of?
>> Have I missed anything that would really make this task easier?
>>
>> If I manage to do it , will it be possible to add it in the source tree ?
>>
>> And a last request , can you link my website (psautiers.org or
>> score-catcher.org or both) from your website?
>>
>>
>> Thanks really much for your help
>>
>> Dang Nguyen Bac
> 
> Dear Dang Nguyen,
> 
> This is something I proposed to the French users list earlier this year and 
> it got a lukewarm response from the community (save several well-thought-out 
> responses from Scheme and/or musicxml and/or accessibility enthusiasts).  I 
> have started some sketches for this type of code, and it is certainly 
> possible, especially if you do not include position information.  Contact me 
> if you'd like to talk more about this and I'll dig up the sketches I've 
> already done in Scheme.
> 
> Cheers,
> MS
> 

Dear Mike,

Actually, I am really interested, but I am wondering why you used scheme
, is it because you are doing this recursively ?
Is it because it is easier to parse ly files with scheme (I don't know
this language yet ) ?

Thanks really much


Dang Nguyen Bac