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<h2 class="chapter">5 Converting from other formats</h2>
<p>Music can be entered also by importing it from other formats. This
chapter documents the tools included in the distribution to do so.
There are other tools that produce LilyPond input, for example GUI
sequencers and XML converters. Refer to the
<a href="http://lilypond.org">website</a> for more details.
<p>These are separate programs from <samp><span class="command">lilypond</span></samp> itself, and are run
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<h5 class="subsubheading">Known issues and warnings</h5>
<p>We unfortunately do not have the resources to maintain these
programs; please consider them “as-is”. Patches are appreciated, but
bug reports will almost certainly not be resolved.
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Invoking-midi2ly.html#Invoking-midi2ly">Invoking midi2ly</a>: Importing MIDI.
<li><a accesskey="2" href="Invoking-musicxml2ly.html#Invoking-musicxml2ly">Invoking musicxml2ly</a>: Importing MusicXML.
<li><a accesskey="3" href="Invoking-abc2ly.html#Invoking-abc2ly">Invoking abc2ly</a>: Importing ABC.
<li><a accesskey="4" href="Invoking-etf2ly.html#Invoking-etf2ly">Invoking etf2ly</a>: Importing Finale.
<li><a accesskey="5" href="Generating-LilyPond-files.html#Generating-LilyPond-files">Generating LilyPond files</a>: GUIs, transcribers, and algorithmic composition programs.
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