Originally Posted By: jazzmammal

.............What you do is simply visualize what the chart looks like without all the extra stuff like 1sr/2nd endings, tags, codas, DS's, and section letters. By that I mean it's like taking a pic of an existing chart with your phone and simply counting the number of bars you see and the chords you see while ignoring the other..........
Bob


I'm not sure for who this comment is meant. If I'm the one I should like to get a BIAB file ( .mg..) example from you so I can create a PDF file and convert it into a musicXML without manually correcting it and see what all real short comings are! This because your comments doesn't yet make sense to me. For the purpose I use it there is no more simple way to use BIAB files without all kind of manually corrections to create files that can be used directly as full transposable music in an app at an iPad or Androïd based tablet. With some stuff, which we as amateur musicians hardly use in BIAB there are some problems, which can be easily added at the tablet itself. Not so with a lot of stuff you mentioned like tags, coda's and section letters which are converted as well. All depends also on settings used in BIAB used during printing to PDF. Secondly the whole issue is, the details has to be solved one by one to create a program that meets your expectations. I've learned to have some considerations with the creators. I'm only a user of PDFtoMusic which tries to convince them to solve all short comings one by one. And until now I succeeded by using 6000 excisting files in batch mode processing them to get an idea of all those short comings. The improvements are great! For me it already serves its purpose for most of my files and I can directly use them without any manual correction. But I'm not a prof composer! All necessary handwriting can be done at your tablet! And while rehearsing everybody can transpose as needed ( if the singer wants another key, or an new instrument wants another key)! No paper involved, all instantly available at your tablet if you use musicXML or rather .mxl or .mscz.

So please send an example so I can learn what the prof really wants!

Rob

Musicians and music publishers are still wasting too much paper...come on men we live in the digitised age...Wake up!