[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have uploaded a slightly improved alpha version of the mutopia website to the
> same place as last time:
>
> http://members.xoom.com/chrissawer/mutopia.html
xoom claims that your page doesn't exist now, but I've seen a recent
version. Contrary to others, I like the preview-of-score idea, It
gives you a quick summary of how the music sounds. But I would only
use it for pages that contain only a small list of files.
I think that that PNGs of "M.Clementi" are superfluous. Let's assume
that people have browser that can render ASCII adequately.
Further, the different links should be grouped.
* download printable (PS/PDF a4/letter versions)
* download sourcefiles (typically: .ly)
* download playables (typically: .midi)
It would be nice to have links like
* other pieces by this composer.
* other pieces from the same era
* other pieces for the same instrument.
* other pieces with the same level (for teaching/etudes)
* collections of pieces (eg. a .ly and .tex file that create a book
with all cello suites by Bach)
I realise the latter may require some database engineering, so it
might be too difficult for now, but an index by composer and by title
is unmissable.
> Unfortunately due mainly to problems with ps2pdf (the version supplied with
> Ghostscript 5.10 doesn't seem to work - has anyone used it successfully with
> Lilypond?)
xpdf doesn't work for me, but gv does. ghostscript-5.10-7,
gv-3.5.8-7, tetex-0.9-17
> The next major step is to write the search / display algorithms - I
> now have access to a cgi-bin on a server, so can begin to write
> this. It will be difficult to test, however, without a larger amount
> of music. This shouldn't be
I suggest to extract the information for the database from the \header
fields in the source files. I suggest to store the music on the FTP
archive in directories of the form
ftp://host/pub/mutopia/Composer/Opus/
I think this scheme minimises probability of collisions, and is very
predictable. Example:
ftp://host/pub/mutopia/W.A.Mozart/KV331/
contains all editions / all files relating to the Mozart alla turca
pianosonata. The download links of the website would point to the FTP
site.
> a problem as there is a reasonable amount already distributed with Lilypond in
> the Mutopia directory. Obviously the Mutopia site needs to be kept up to date
> when it finally appears, but will all of Mutopia still be distributed with
> Lilypond? In short, am I going to take over management of the archive of music
> or will Han-Wen continue to do this? When this is sorted out we can ask anyone
> who has contributed to Mutopia so far to send any updates to the appropriate
> person and I can start adding the music to the website.
I would like to keep some mutopia pieces within Lilypond to act as
example how to use Lily in practice. Occasionally, we send the
updates of Lilypond examples (which occur more frequently due to
syntax changes) to the FTP archive.
We should also add a maintainer field to the header format, so updates
go to the right person.
> It's probably sensible for me not to put any ps, pdf or ly files up on the
> website until we've sorted out the copyright situation on this mailing list.
> There's no rush, however as I've got plenty to do designing the rest of the
> site!
Yep. Time to devise a legal document.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
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