I very much welcome any effort in this direction. Sounds good.
But ... I have seen several attempts and announcements to better
support MusicXML export for LilyPond over the years in this mailing
list. And after a promising start and even usable first implementations
very often the development slows down.
MusicXML export support for LilyPond seems to be a tricky thing to
tackle and to maintain and debug. Many people (including me) will be
tempted to say "Yes I want that NOW!" but in reality just let's wait
and see, or - if you can - help coding and contributing.
MT
Op donderdag 12 maart 2026 om 10:11:55 +11:00:00 schreef Vaughan
McAlley <[email protected]>:
This sounds great, Tina!
Personally, being able to reliably export one-part-per-line choral
music would be a huge benefit for me. I usually import and export
with MIDI, and it is the lyrics that have to be redone.
Vaughan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2026, 10:05 Tina Petzel, <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello Pondies,
just to have you know, I am working on a system for exporting
musicXML. I have
done a rough sketch recently for a project I was doing (the singers
wanted
musicXML for rehearsing parts). Once I have time I will hopefully
tackle a
proper implementation and put into some sort of git hosting thingy.
The small
900 lines of code sketch I have works quite nicely already for
sufficiently
simple music, but is not too cleaned up. But I think it can be
turned into
quite a nice and extensible system.
My goals here are:
* The system should not necessarily be super perfect, but super
stable. No
non-experimental inputs should lead to totally unusable results (of
course
only to the extent to which musicXML can encode things, after all
the Lilypond
language is much more expressive than musicXML)
* It should be clean, well structured and easy to understand
* It should be easily extensible
So far none of the solutions that exist satisfy these conditions.
They tend to
produce corrupeted structures for fairly non-complex stuff, are
very hard to
actually understand and thus quite hard to extend.
Will probably rewrite the proper code on weekend and share for
inspection and
input.
Cheers,
Tina
