Re: A working MusicXML engraver?

Hi Peter,

In addition to everyone else's suggestions and discussion, please be sure to use the latest Dolet for Finale plug-in with Finale 2012. It has several bug fixes and enhancements compared to the version that shipped with Finale 2012. It's available for download via:

http://www.musicxml.com/dolet-plugin/ <http://www.musicxml.com/dolet-plugin/>

I am still the developer maintaining MusicXML import and export for Finale and the Dolet for Finale plug-in, so I would be most interested in seeing the files that cause these problems. A combination of the MusicXML file and the corresponding PDF file showing the expected result would be best. You can email them to me off-list, or log a technical support issue at our Finale web site.

Best regards,
Michael

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Michael Good
VP Research and Development
MakeMusic, Inc.


> On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:12 PM, L Peter Deutsch <aemusic@major2nd.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>