import lilypond

• Dec 30, 2010 - 20:40

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

In reply to 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.

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Update after another 7 years:
github.com/uliska/ly2xml
"This repository was created as a stub for the possible development of a LilyPond-to-MusicXML converter/export. As there is urgent need for such a thing but no actual development, this repository should serve as a start to collect ideas/aspects and eventually even code. However, actual development with regard to XML conversion of and to LilyPond scores is done in the context of the Frescobaldi project and its python-ly Python module."

github.com/frescobaldi/python-ly
pypi.org/project/python-ly/
"There is also experimental support for converting LilyPond to MusicXML."
I hope to try this soon and will report back.

(FYI, Frescobaldi still lacks export capability)

In reply to by BanjoJake

What I'm curious about is why anyone--15 years ago or now--would be reporting this (or complaining about it :-) here at MuseScore. This would be a function of Lilypad, not of MuseScore. Why not report it and/or complain about it in some forum that supports Lilypad?

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