Re: Lilypond <-> Sibelius

[Karlin High]

On 4/23/2018 9:53 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> They had assignments that were to be done in Sibelius, because they could 
> automatically grade the Sibelius files.   That is, it was a method for 
> providing known information, rather than seeing what music was created.  
> Unfortunately, the same could be done with LilyPond; it's too bad that they 
> don't work with LilyPond instead.

I had a similar experience in an English Composition course once. The 
writing projects HAD to be submitted via specifically-formatted RTF file 
made with Microsoft Word. Oh come on, I thought - I can do that with 
LibreOffice. Carefully adjusted the margins, etc just like they said. 
Nope, didn't work - lost points for bad formatting. Word didn't pick it 
up like I'd laid it down in LibreOffice.

Back to topic... maybe this would be an opportunity for LilyPond, in 
software specific to music courses? Thomas Morley posted code once for 
auto-generating a sight-reading worksheet. If the reverse was possible - 
read pitches and durations from a LilyPond file, analyze and possibly 
grade for desired correctness - then I can imagine some lilybin.com sort 
of website that lets teachers put up coursework and students submit 
their solutions. No software installs needed on each student and faculty 
computer.
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA