Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

[pls]

On 23.07.2013, at 15:03, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> To: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc
>> 
>> Well without considerable expense I can't really test Sibelius or
>> Finale, just report on what others have published in its name. They may
>> have hopeless skills in music typesetting. Where these comparisons are
>> strong is where the comparison is between two imports from MusicXML. If
>> anyone has access to the commercial programs and can do some MusicXML
>> imports then we could get an insight into the un-tweaked performance of
>> them.
What a coincidence: I was actually planning a blog entry comparing the 
MusicXML-Import of various programs.  
> 
> I can import musicXML into the latest version of Sibelius (7) and report on 
> its output if you want.
It would be great to collaborate! 

I'd recommend to standardize the comparison by using these sample files (both 
MusicXML and their corresponding PDF/PNG files) as reference files: 
http://www.musicxml.com/music-in-musicxml/example-set/.  They cover quite a 
broad spectrum of music notation.  I would simply open these files with 
different applications and save the rendered scores each time as PDF files 
without changing / tweaking anything.  Then we can compare the resulting PDF 
files.

Of course this doesn't necessarily tell anything about the quality of music 
engraving of the compared applications.  It rather shows the quality of the 
file format conversion of these programs.  musicxml2ly will not score very well 
here, I'm afraid.  I have already tested quite a few of these files...

In the same vein I'd like to do a comparison of various OMR applications with 
these sample files...
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