import lilypond
Is there any way users have had much success importing from lilypond files?
It appears that
lilypond can export to a "music streams" format, would that help out here?
Also a lilypond to musicxml converter would work, but doesn't seem to yet exist.
Anybody have any tips out there?
Thanks!
-r
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg28090.html (also mentions that you can use OCR on pdf's that lilypond generates, which might be a work around).
Comments
Lilypond import was removed from MuseScore since it was not working in the first place and second, there was no one to pick it up. Instead, we concentrated on improving MusicXML import which is currently the leading standard format for sheet music. The best way to go forward is to add MusicXML export to Lilypond. It would be simply very beneficial to the Lilypond project to have MusicXML export.
See
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=665
http://old.nabble.com/Converting-lilypond-to-music-xml-td19133785.html
http://old.nabble.com/MusicXML-Export-td22960864.html
http://old.nabble.com/MusicXML-backend-for-lilypond--td17957920.html
for followers, another current option is to convert to midi, then to muse.
In reply to midi by rogerdpack
Hi https://musescore.org/en/user/6893 how can I convert a lilypond file to midi?
In reply to Hi https://musescore.org/en… by niroshan1988
Please note3 that you responded to a more than 7 years old post
You can't directly, not anymore, lilypond export support had been removed from MuseScore 2.0, due to lack of a maintainer IIRC, lilypond import had been removed much earlier, see Thomas' answer above.
But I believe meanwhile you can use ly2xml, which is part of Lilypond, to convert LY files into (Music)XML files and import those.
I'm very interested in his matter, too...
Is there anything new?
In reply to I'm very interested in his by xiano
I've been tracking the Lilypond mailing list and nothing new to report on MusicXML export from Lilypond yet.