Erik Moeller wrote:
On a related note, I'd like some feedback on the suggestion to provide support for inline musical notation via GNU Lilypond: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_markup
In favor if we can get possible security issues sorted out (anyone e- mailed the Lilypond folks yet?). Also, we should run some performance tests on the MIDI generation etc. to make sure that it's not too taxing.
Since this is likely to come up again, should we think about a general plugin framework or something like that? texvc might be extended in that fashion.
http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/First-steps.h...
It writes "C" for "\time 4/4"? Urg! LaTex "feels" like maths feels -- I think this stuff will feel very odd to the average musician.
It should be fine for basics. Don't expect anyone to transcribe Mozart with it though! That said, I think the basics are all we'll need. (otherwise, there's
MusicXML