Re: A working MusicXML engraver?

You could try MuseScore http://musescore.org
It's available on Linux (but also on mac and windows), it's GPLv2.

Nicolas

2015-11-30 9:12 GMT+04:00 L Peter Deutsch <aemusic@major2nd.com>:

> 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
>
>