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

[pls]

Am 21.02.2012 um 22:04 schrieb 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?
Yes, you're right.  But I'd say the other results are also interesting because 
they show that the same .xml-file is represented differently by different 
notation softwares (e.g. concerning page breaks , lyrics...)

I could try it again with a more complicated piece if you want.  Any 
suggestions?

hth,
patrick

P.S.: I don't think I will find time to do some more testing before the next 
weekend, though. Sorry.
> 
> thanks,
> Janek