On Aug 22, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 22.08.2011 16:40, schrieb Mike Solomon:
>>
>> Yup.
>>
>> I started doing this a while back - most of it is doable, and Jan has
>> implemented some helper functions as well. It is kinda thorny, though, and
>> only works for a certain category of "tame" music.
> Is this a restriction/problem on the LilyPond side or a restriction of the
> musicXML standard ("The MusicXML format represents common Western musical
> notation from the 17th century onwards" - which usually really means
> 17th-19th century, possibly a little bit of early 20th)?
The musicXML standard. This is because it is not object oriented, so (unless
someone can offer me proof to the contrary) one cannot say things to the effect
of "cross-staff stem X should reach down to note-head Y."
Cheers,
MS
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