Klarinet Archive - Posting 000073.txt from 2009/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] music writing program
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:06:37 -0400

The other problem is that you'd have to have saved the files in ETF =
format
to begin with while you still had a working copy of Finale. Most people =
only
save their Finale files in .mus format. Fred's Finale version is, I =
think he
said, no longer operable on his current (OSX) machine. So the ability to
read .etf files is not much advantage unless you have Finale available =
(in
which case you may as well keep using it) or had the foresight to save =
in
.etf format all along (unusual).

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Fasel [mailto:jhfasel@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 6:32 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] music writing program
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> Oliver,
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> Actually, I don't know that this is the case, although I thought I had
> read somewhere that this is the purpose of etf, i.e., to produce files
> that can be read by any version of Finale. At least, etf is an open,
> documented format, so one has some hope of dealing with troublesome
> elements somehow.
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> Looking at the man page for etf2ly, I see that it converts a subset of
> the etf format to Lilypond, meaning that it may ignore some elements
> it doesn't understand. Thus, one has to do fix-up after conversion,
> but that's to be expected anyway.
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> Cheers,
> --Joe
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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu> wrote:
> > Wow! =A0I had no idea. =A0The implication here is that Finale .etf =
files
> are not
> > backward incompatible as are the .mus files.
> > That is, Finale 2008 will not read a Finale 2009 .mus file.
> >
> > Are you suggesting that Lilypond will read an .etf file written by
> any
> > version of Finale? =A0If so, that's very important news.
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> > At 02:01 PM 10/5/2009, you wrote:
> >>
> >> Try Lilypond:
> >>
> >> http://lilypond.org/
> >>
> >> It is open-source and thus free as in speech as well as in beer.
> >> Furthermore, it produces excellent scores. =A0Lilypond can import =
.etf
> >> files from Finale, though not .mus.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> --Joe
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Fred Jacobowitz
> <fbjacobo@-----.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Here's one for the list:
> >> >
> >> > Can anyone recommend an inexpensive (possibly freeware?) music
> notation
> >> > program? I have Finale, but
> >> > it is an older version which won't run on my Mac OSX. I'm really
> p***ed
> >> > off,
> >> > but I don't use it enough to warrant paying hundreds of dollars
> for the
> >> > latest Finale upgrade, which has way too many features I'll never
> use.
> >> > Basically all I'm doing is lead sheets and basic arrangements. =
Not
> even
> >> > using MIDI!
> >> >
> >> > So the multi-part question is: 1. can anyone recommend a simple
> >> > mac-compatible program?
> >> > 2. It would be a plus if it could read my old Finale files. Can
> any
> >> > non-Finale programs read Finale files?
> >> >
> >> > Thanx all.
> >> >
> >> > Fred Jacobowitz
> >> >
> >> > CASE CLOSED Musical Instrument Case Repair Service
> >> > Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
> >> > Ebony and Ivory Duo
> >> >
> >> > You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
> >> > ~Doug Floyd
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > =
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