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Re: producing "archival" scores
From: |
Stuart Pullinger |
Subject: |
Re: producing "archival" scores |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:16:32 +0100 |
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:40:01 -0400
"Jason Merrill" <address@hidden> wrote:
> So far, the best option was suggested by Tom: a tool called PDFtoMusic
> Pro that converts PDF scores into MusicXML. The pros are that it is
> available right now, and that it presumably works. Downsides are that
> it is proprietary and not free, and takes what seems to me a rather
> indirect route towards solving my particular problem.
>
> Any other suggestions? Any comments on the likelihood of being able
> to compile lilypond into a music interchange format at some point in
> the future?
One possibiltiy that has not been mentioned yet is to use lilypond's
SVG output instead of PDF. SVG is an open standard developed at the w3c:
http://www.w3c.org/Grapics/SVG/
The pros: since SVG is an open standard and not reliant on one
company to support it, it is, in a sense, more future-proof than PDF.
SVG is an xml dialect and therefore it will be possible to use XSLT to
transform the SVG files into future file formats (although I accept
that this could be time-consuming).
The cons: SVG is not music-aware - it is merely a graphics file. The
files can be edited in a graphics program such as Inkscape
(http://www.inkscape.org) but this is only in a
moving-blobs-and-lines-around-a-screen sense not in a notation editor.
It would be possible to make lilypond's SVG output more music-aware
(and this is an area that I am interested in) but, as far as I know,
there is no svg-based music-aware file format that you could use. You
would therefore still have to archive the .ly files or their MusicXML
equivalents.
SVG are supported in Firefox and Konqueror (in GNU/Linux) but I
understand that support in IE is is poor.
In conclusion: SVG provide an alternative to PDF which may be more
future-proof provided that you are prepared for patchy support in
current browsers.
Stuart
- Re: producing "archival" scores, (continued)
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Aaron Dalton, 2007/04/07
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Jason Merrill, 2007/04/09
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Aaron Dalton, 2007/04/09
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Graham Percival, 2007/04/10
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Kieren MacMillan, 2007/04/10
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Anthony W. Youngman, 2007/04/10
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Simon Dahlbacka, 2007/04/10
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Cameron Horsburgh, 2007/04/11
- Re: producing "archival" scores, David Rogers, 2007/04/10
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Graham Percival, 2007/04/10
- Re: producing "archival" scores,
Stuart Pullinger <=
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Valentin Villenave, 2007/04/12
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Bart Kummel, 2007/04/17
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Anthony W. Youngman, 2007/04/17
Re: producing "archival" scores, stk, 2007/04/08
Re: producing "archival" scores, Tim Reeves, 2007/04/09