Re: I know this question was asked about a thousand times....

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Valentin Villenave escreveu:
> ...but since I consider myself as a newbie here, I hope you won't mind :)
>
> Here am I : I've (almost) written a whole opera under Sibelius 3, and
> I've been trying for ages to switch to Libre software, I mean our
> favorite Lilypond forever...
>
> The music I'm writing from now on is entirely genuine Lilypond-coded
> (took me a couple hours a day during one month to learn but i'm done).
> My question is : how about the music I wrote _before_ that, the tons
> of .sib files on my HD ? Shall I rewrite it from scratch ? Is there
> any way to spare me months and months of hard working ?

> I know .sib files are compressed and somehow encrypted, and therefore
> quite difficult to "disassemble" ; is there any sponsoring stuff to
> make it possible however ?
>
> Or is there any other advice anyone can give me ?

The musicxml importer isn't that good and can be improved, but if the 
problems are on the Dolet side, you're SOL obviously.

IF you're looking for a technical solution, find someone who is willing 
to reverse engineer Sib.  You can do it by disassembling a demo (the 
demos don't come with EULAs).

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