[LAU] need Sibelius/Score/Finale user

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:38 -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On 6/8/07, Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm considering entering some of my music in an international
> > competition. However, the organization accepts scores only in one of the
> > three formats indicated in the subject line. Thus, I need to find
> > someone who has one or more of those apps and can help recast my lovely
> > LilyPond scores into an acceptable format. I doubt there's a nice simple
> > LP-to-proprietary-format conversion utility, so is there anyone here who
> > can advise and/or assist me in the conversion process ?
> 
> I use Finale Allegro and Geniesoft Overture... will either of those
> work? Not sure how we can go about converting them other than getting
> a MIDI version of the your score and importing in and then touching up
> the stuff as needed to match the LilyPond layout.

the intermediary is musicXML, but its a 1-way street: lilypond can read
MusicXML but refuses to write it. Lilypond authors say they have no
plans to support this; Sibelius support says they do not plan to support
lilypond format.

--p