Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

[Janek Warchoł]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, pls <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am 16.02.2012 um 13:02 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys
>> What happens if you take a fully formatted file from Finale and load
>> it into Sibelius via the musicxml route, and the reverse? Is anyone
>> able to post the before and after PDFs of such a transition?
> I can't really say what happens when you interchange a fully formatted 
> MusicXML generated by Finale but this is what I did to test the different 
> output:
>
> * engraved a piece with LilyPond
> * converted it to MusicXML using PDFtoMusic Pro v1.3.0d
> * manually corrected the .xml-file (surprise, surprise: PDFtoMusic Pro' OCR 
> is not »perfect« ;-))
> * reconverted the file to LilyPond using musicxml2ly
> * opened the .xml-file with Finale NotePad 2012, Finale 2011 Demo, Sibelius 6 
> Demo, MuseScore v1.1
>
> And these are the results (first page only):

Thank you for doing this test!  The results are valuable; i'd say that
it works reasonably.  (however it would also be good to test a more
complicated piece - could you try it with first pages of attached
scores?)
>From what i undestand, the most important comparison is between first
and last file (IMSLP74045-PMLP148535-256-16_pls.png and
IMSLP74045-PMLP148535-256-16_pls_p2mp_pls.png) - the first one is the
original LilyPond engraving, and the second one is what you got after
converting to musicXML and back to .ly?

thanks,
Janek