Re: How to get involved

Hello

In MusicXML all pitches can be specified with the <alter>-command. And 
accidentals
with the <accidental>-command. But as you write, Finale and Musescore 
will "correct" the
notes and not preserve, what you wrote. However - I found out that I 
could make two versions
of the tune: One with the right pitches and one print-version, where 
pitches and accidentals are changed in order to make it look right in 
Musescore and print (Impossible in Finale). But MusicXML is OK.
In principle so simple - reality something else. For MNX - microtones 
are not allowed.

Kind regards
Mogens

On 2020-05-12 22:34, Douglas Blumeyer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a new member here. Thank you all in advance for being patient 
> with me as I ramp up.
>
> I see that quite a bit of activity is occurring right now with respect 
> both to MusicXML and MNX. I am a software engineer and new music 
> composer. I write my music in code and occasionally wish to generate 
> traditional sheet music for humans to take a crack at the pieces. But 
> they are in alternative tuning systems and it would be great if I 
> could flip an enum around in my code to export as MusicXML with 
> various microtonal notations. However I haven't had luck with this in 
> the past because it doesn't seem MusicXML has support for many common 
> microtonal notations.
>
> And when I've used notation software to export and import MusicXML in 
> the recent past, even just exporting and immediately re-importing 
> without making any changes, the format garbles my work to the point of 
> unusability (that or it's MuseScore which can't translate my work into 
> MusicXML well).
>
> I want to do whatever I can to help make this happen but I don't know 
> where to start. As a member of this list am I a "co-chair" and can I 
> thus attend the next upcoming meeting? Please let me know how I can 
> best contribute. I have no sense of the political situation here yet 
> so I do not mean to offend or start a fire or anything like that. Just 
> curious at this point.
>
> Best,
> Douglas Blumeyer

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