GNU LilyPond program usage: 5.5 Generating LilyPond files

## 5.5 Generating LilyPond files

LilyPond itself does not come with support for any other formats, but there are some external tools that also generate LilyPond files.

These tools include

- Denemo, a graphical score editor.
- Rumor, a realtime monophonic MIDI to LilyPond converter.
- lyqi, an Emacs major mode.
- xml2ly, which imports MusicXML
- NoteEdit which imports MusicXML
- Rosegarden, which imports MIDI
- FOMUS, a LISP library to generate music notation
- http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml, has experimental export for LilyPond.
- http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/, can export to LilyPond.
- http://musescore.org can also export to LilyPond.

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