- From: L Peter Deutsch <aemusic@major2nd.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 21:12:52 -0800 (PST)
- To: public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org
In addition to a specification for MusicXML, it would be really nice to have a reasonably good engraver, preferably free / Open Source. I am working on software to convert between mup and MusicXML. The software produces MusicXML output that seems unquestionably valid to me. The engravers I have available to test it on are Finale 2012 and Sibelius 6.1 -- the leading commercial score editors / engravers -- but their MusicXML importers are broken in simple, obvious ways. In a very simple test file: * Finale 2012 garbled the handling of margins, and mis-handled an octave-displaced clef. * Sibelius 6.1 garbled the handling of margins (in a different way than Finale), mis-handled an octave-displaced clef and an octave-displaced part, and misinterpreted a parenthesized accidental (omitted the parens and moved it to a different note). Assuming that this group continues to work with MusicXML, I would like to suggest that in addition to producing a reasonably specifiable design, a good specification, a converter, and a validator, a successful outcome should include an Open Source engraver of reasonable quality and at least an attempt at an engraver test suite. I realize that all this will take quite a lot of effort, may be some distance in the future, and is probably best viewed as "How can we facilitate / support someone doing these things" rather than "How can we do them".... Meanwhile, if anyone knows of a MusicXML engraver that runs on Linux, handles all reasonably common constructs, and works reliably, whether free / Open Source or not, please contact me (privately, if you wish). Thanks - L Peter Deutsch
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