Building a music engraving system from scratch

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3 pointsganonm3 comments

Author here. Happy to answer any questions.

Greetings from a fellow developer who's also built an engraving engine. :) (I built the engine used by Soundslice.)

If it's not too late, I'd encourage you to try MNX as your internal notation format (https://mnx.formats.music/docs/). It's getting pretty stable and it's much easier to deal with than MusicXML, being in JSON and not requiring a state machine to deal with MusicXML's forward/backward elements, etc.

Thanks a lot for the pointer. I'll definitely check this out. Supporting both formats probably wouldn't be unreasonable.

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