Re: Music publishing houses accepting Lilypond files?

[Simon Albrecht]

Hi Colin,

I haven’t tried it myself, but generally publishers have a house style 
and want all their publications to comply with that house style. It’s 
offputting to me, because I have my own aesthetic preferences which 
don’t match with what computer typesetting typically looks like, so I 
would love if them simply taking .pdfs and adding front matter/page 
numbers etc. was a thing. Sadly, I don’t think it is.

Urs Liska and collaborator(s) had a major success with their 
LilyPond/LaTeX edition of Oskar Fried lieder which received a German 
Edition of the Year award. However, the publisher they worked with is so 
small it barely exists.

Best, Simon

On 12/03/2022 18:51, Colin Campbell wrote:
> As the title implies: I've just converted a score from Finale, after 
> the composer had given up trying to get a readable layout. He's 
> delighted with the result, and seems interested in exploring LP. As he 
> is also considering publishing his piece, my question to the community 
> is: which publishers  will accept submission in Lilypond format (or 
> perhaps as .PDF or .SVG) and do you have any recommendations or 
> experiences?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin