Re: musicxml2ly

[Jonathan Kulp]

Jonathan Kulp wrote:

> > As a a comparison I also tried the examples with the new Finale 
> > Notepad 2009. I hate to admit it but: At this moment Finale Notepad 
> > does a better MusicXML rendering job than Lily.
>
> Not surprising, since they almost certainly created the xml files with 
> Finale.  Finale Notepad is a severly crippled version of Finale, though, 
> while Lilypond's free version is, well, the only version, with all of 
> the features of the full version. ;-)
>
> Jon

I should have read the fine print carefully the first time.  My 
suspicion was correct--from the Recordare website:

"All of these files were created in Finale first, then exported into 
MusicXML 2.0 and PDF formats."

Naturally the conversion back to Finale's format would be very smooth.

Jon
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