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MEI Lilypond Engraving Refinement

mei2ly.xsl transforms MEI to LilyPond and supports already many music elements from MEI and works for checking encoding errors.Basic layout features are implemented for global staff size and page layout.

Check the availableoptions and the list ofsupported elements and attributes.

For now it uses XSLT 2.0. A possible goal for a later branch is to have an pure XSLT 1.0 version to put on a website, where you can generate a lilypond engraved rendering of a MEI edition on the fly.

And of course you'll needLilyPond for engraving your output. For custom headers and footers you should check and editly/titling-init.ly.

Along comessilly.xsl whichStrips Individual Layout for LilyPond. It basically removes layout instructions from your MEI (e.g. stem directions) so LilyPond can do it's job. Using this will give you a fine clean LilyPond code withmei2ly.xsl.

If you want to prevent a MIDI output by LilyPond (which gets triggered by the presence of MIDI attributes) useremidial.xsl toREmove MIDI Attributes for Lilypond. It is calledReMIDIAL because it performs a remedial action. (Yes, it's a bad pun.)

forDebussy_Golliwogg'sCakewalk.mei:

(See more testshere.)

On macOS you can useHomebrew to install required packages. Just open a terminal and type:

brew install lilypond saxon