Fomus

FOMUS outputs musicxml version 1.1 format files when the :musicxml keyword is used in the output setting. An .xml extension is automatically added to make the complete output filename. The output file is importable into a number of different notation programs, though the quality of the results will vary. Fomus doesn't including any information about positioning–this is left up to the program doing the importing to decide. So far, MusicXML has been tested on Sibelius version 4.1 and Finale version 2006. Although the MusicXML format itself can support almost all of the notational elements that fomus supports, a few things don't seem to work correctly or don't import at all into either of these programs. The following major issues were found:

• sibelius often imports rhythms incorrectly when they involve tuplets.
• finale imports tuplets/rhythms incorrectly when they involve nested tuplets.
• there's not much support for importing tremolos.

most of these are easily fixed with the exception of the improper rhythm/tuplet problems. Until there are better solutions for these problems, there are some options for getting around some of them: