Re: MEI to LilyPond conversion

[Urs Liska]

Am Dienstag, den 21.01.2020, 07:03 -0600 schrieb David Nalesnik:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:17 AM Urs Liska <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 21.01.2020, 10:09 +0100 schrieb Jacques Menu:
> > > Hello folks,
> > > 
> > > MEI has been mentionned at the Salzburg conference as more and
> > > more
> > > used in the academic circles.
> > > 
> > > Jan-Peter said that an MEI to Lily translator would be useful,
> > > and
> > > RISM’s Laurent Pugin presented Verovio (
> > > https://www.verovio.org/index.xhtml), which features an XSL/XSLT
> > > such
> > > translator named MEIler (MEI Lilypond Engraving Refinement,
> > > https://github.com/rettinghaus/meiler).
> > > 
> > 
> > MEIler is independent from Verovio, and developed by Klaus
> > Rettinghaus
> > privately.
> > 
> > > My questions are: do you feel the need for a MEI to LilyPond
> > > translator, and has anyone experience with MEIler?
> > 
> > a)
> > There is a *strong* need for a reliable and fast translator from
> > MEI to
> > LilyPond (and vice versa) to make LilyPond an acceptable tool in
> > the
> > digital edition community.
> 
> You can of course take a more circuitous route with MusicXML as an
> intermediary.  For MusicXML to MEI there exist packages like this:
> https://github.com/gburlet/musicxml-mei-conversion

But the issue right now is *from* MEI *to* LilyPond.

Urs

> 
> David