On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Laura Conrad <lcon...@laymusic.org> wrote:

> >>>>> "Frédéric" == Frédéric Bron <frederic.b...@m4x.org> writes:
>
>    Frédéric> A friend of mine is used to Finale. I try to convert him
>    Frédéric> to lilypond.  What is the best way to convert a score
>    Frédéric> from Finale to Lilypond?  Regards,
>
> What *ought* to be the best way is to have Finale save the file as a
> MusicXML file, and then use musicxml2ly to convert it.
>
> I don't have any experience with doing this -- the Finale users I know
> refuse to find options in the Finale menus.  If you want to try it
> out, there do seem to be some MusicXML files on the Werner Icking
>

I've done this probably a dozen times (exporting from Finale and converting
to .ly) and it works pretty well. There are some things to clean up
(duplicated dynamic markings, for example) but overall it works a lot better
than one might expect.

Jon
-- 
Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com
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