[iainmerrick]

That's a good point; if/when all the scores are fully electronic, they could easily be transcribed automatically.

Anyone know how close we are to that? I feel like I'm seeing many more professional classical musicians using iPads rather than paper scores, but I don't know if they're just looking at scanned scores, or something like MIDI that can be freely transliterated.

[TremendousJudge]

We are very, very far away from that. To get a feel of what scorewriter software is like nowadays, Tantacrul's videos[0] on the subject of UI are very good at showing what the state of the art is. On one of his videos he shows that the best score engraving can only be achieved by using a closed source, now-unsupported command line program from the 80s called Score[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORE_(software)