Hello Omer,
This has become a sort of FAQ. Lilypond does not fully support MusicXML
and Frescobaldi's support is also experimental. That's due to limited
resources of the development team, and because implementing a
spectacularly good MusicXML export does not actually benefit the core
functionality of Lilypond, which is ,ore important to do at this stage.
Export mostly only benefits other programs and user of those programs.
That is why this does not have a lot of development. The other comment I
would make is that MusicXML has a lot of known limitations and never
turned into the global and universal music interchange format that was
hoped for, like PDF is for documents. That's because music is vastly
more complex that text documents and there is much that it misses out
on. I don't think this situation is going to change.
You'll find similar threads on the Dorico forum - even the Steinberg
development team for that product does not have the resources for
MusicXML full support and ongoing development.
Sadly a lot of 'big name' publishing houses want MusicXML from composers
(and they want the composers to do the work now!), as they don't use
Dorico or Lilypond and so on. This is all very unsatisfactory.
Not that it answers your question directly, but some people find
MuseScore has reasonable MusicXML capabilities.
Andrew
On 11/10/2022 3:29 am, Omer Katzir wrote:
Is there any news about incorporating MusicXML into Lilypond? I need to share
my engravings between several people, most aren’t using Lilypond. I know
there’s musicxml2ly but I need it the other way around.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
