Re: Converting ly to musicxml

[Valentin Villenave]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Martin Tarenskeen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I guess the idea was to make it possible to export MusicXML directly from
> Lilypond (just like midi, png, pdf, and postscript), re-using Lilypond
> parsing-code that is available anyway? And Scheme is the language that
> integrates perfectly with Lilypond? That would be better/easier to develop
> than a separate python tool?

Some early discussions were even more ambitious, and involved
outputting not only music elements, but LilyPond's formatting
information as well, by creating a whole xml backend:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=665

That being said, Jan's work seems to have already gone a long way, and
it may be worth sending a reminder to everybody (myself included) who
once offered a bounty for this feature: by my count, we're already
looking at a €600 fee, which is starting to look at least halfway
decent!

Cheers,
Valentin.