[WikiEN-l] Workflow for music excerpts

[stevertigo]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  It is the happy circumstance that:
> a) Articles about pieces of classical music are much better with an
> excerpt of the music presented as an image
> b) PDFs of enormous amounts of classical music are available, in
> public domain, at the International Music Score Library Project
> (imslp.org). For example, Chopin's coverage is virtually
> comprehensive.
>

PDF to image(s) is a nice idea, within limits. But for music the best way
would be to use something like WikiTex (wikisophia.org), which turns
Lilypond code via LaTeX into a rendered PNG of the music, along with a
downloadable .mid file.

But it's been on the burner for like 4-5 years now because, *AIUI, nobody
can patch the security holes associated with taking complex input, and
anyway nobody wants sheet music, tengwar, go, chess, flowcharts, sylized
greek, and plotted graphs handled computatively or editably through
Wikipedia.

-S