Re: Introducing "LilyPond HTML Live Score"

[Mathieu Demange]

Hi Richard,

The ideal approach would have been to have a timing information directly inserted in the svg output by LilyPond itself but I tried everything I could to obtain such a result with no luck. I posted here about that topic but I didn't get any clue.

So I figured out I'd do it myself.

I was able to set a grob's ID dynamically and put its "origin" (point and click information) in it : that was a way to later reference a unique notehead or rest.

On the other side, the event listener (based on the event-listener.ly file bundled with LilyPond) allowed me to get an approximate timing information and another "origin" which I could then couple to the first one.

I say "approximate" because the event listener itself seems imperfect to me (even though I'm glad it exist, of course). The "moment" value is always computed on a 4/4 time signature basis, even if specified otherwise. Time signatures events themselves are not reported even though there's a listener for that. Anyway, I got rid of those little things by calculating timing data myself.

In the python script, I'm basically keeping track of a current tempo and use delta-time computations over note and rest events to calculate their real timing.

The script then injects extra HTML5 attributes to the svg code.

The _javascript_ part gather all noteheads and rests <g> tags and creates an array of objects which is then sorted chronologically (svg objects are laid out in a way which is not chronological at all).

Hope this answers even partially to your curiosity :)

I really appreciate your feedback and I'm happy to have reasons to keep working on that tool other than myself only :)

Cheers,

Mathieu

Le 30 nov. 2015 13:39, Richard Shann <address@hidden> a écrit :

On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 19:08 +0100, Mathieu Demange wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been developing a tool which is at a very early stage now, but I
> humbly guess you should like the idea. Check this very simple page and
> click the "play" button (or you can click any note or rest).

I wonder could you give a brief over-view of how you are finding
locations in the LilyPond typeset score that correspond with times?

I ask because by strange coincidence I have just spent the last few days
exploring this topic: I resorted to specifying the number of bars per
line and systems per page and setting the

Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment ...

so as to arrive at a score where I could calculate the location by
dead-reckoning.
Could you say, very roughly, what you are doing?

And, if there has been any further progress in LilyPond to generate a
set of timings for locations in a LilyPond svg or pdf output score which
I may have missed, can anyone else on the list enlighten me.

Richard