On 9/22/07, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Kim. This is very interesting. But a bit appalling! I'd hardly > consider this as a "conversion" when I see all that is lost: beaming, > fonts, layout, figured bass. What happens to articulations and expressions?
Well, sending a from Finale to Sibelius, if I change daggers to a symbol that XML understands, they'll port over into the new file. Trills (marked as TR) are fine, but mordents such as the plus sign aren't, so I have to rekey them. Grace notes, which make up a lot of Graupner's music are lost as well, but that's a issue with Sibelius NOT XML. I brought this to Mr. Spreadbury's attention; and a fix is currently in the works. I know this seems like a lot of work (and it is), but for me, this definitely beats rekeying all the music. It takes me about 20 hours to enter an ouverture or sinfonia (7-12 staves with a total of 600 bars of music), versus about 2 hours cleaning up a XML transfer. I try to be an optimist about it and look at this process as yet another chance to proof my files, before I release them to the publisher. I wished I could offer advice on the lyric text exort function-- but I didn't inlay the German text on any of the Graupner cantatas until I had the music ported over first to Sibelius. I had a hunch that if the figured bass didn't work, the lyrics would end up a mess as well. :( > In other words, this is not something anyone would want to do on a regular > basis! No to be honest, and I'll be very happy when I get done with the last 15 finale files. Then that's it for me. I know you have a lot more than me however! > Are conversions from Finale to Sibelius comparable? Better? Worse? I think honestly they're about the same. > Thanks again for your samples. Sure thing! Kim _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
