Richard, I just tried exporting a few files in tuxguitar into musicxml and importing that into denemo. It went rather well. There were a few details that did not transfer over. With limited testing I found notehead type, note ties, and tremlondo did not transfer over. I am not sure if that tuxguitars fault or denemo. I am going to test more later.
Thanks, Jeremiah On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:57 AM Richard Shann <[email protected]> wrote: > > This email bounced for me, and anyway I thought of a post-script to it > so here it is, revised: > > On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 10:52 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > > Richard, > > I was wondering what the preferred method of inputting other file > > formats is. I have been using tuxguitar to open up these files. I > > then > > would hide the tab because I want my students reading the music and > > not looking at tabs. Tuxguitar can export to lilypond and midi. I > > could probably import it with this but I was wondering how I can go > > about it with less steps or if I can open it up denemo. I have been > > looking over tuxguitar source code specifically the portion of the > > gpx > > file parser. My question is, If I were to write something to import > > it > > denemo should I make it a separate utility that converts it into > > lilypond and then have denemo import it. Is that how the musicxml and > > midi import works? > > Both musicxml and midi are imported by custom C-code routines (*). > LilyPond > is imported by a mixture of Scheme (a lexer-parser in Scheme) and C. > I would forget about MIDI import if Tuxguitar can export LilyPond. But > whether the Tux->Lily->Denemo route is feasible would depend on what > sort of Lily output syntax is exported by Tux - the simplest thing > would be to give it a try on a piece with the most complexity you're > interested in and if creates valid LilyPond but fails in the import to > Denemo just post the LilyPond syntax in case it's just a trivial > problem. > > The other route would be to write a musicxml exporter for Tuxguitar - I > just did this for Denemo, so I'm up to speed on how to write out > MusicXML so I cold probably help there. > > Richard > (*) to be more precise, import musicxml uses C routines to import the > musicxml and then generates a scheme script which is executed to create > the Denemo score. MIDI import is straight C.
