"Don Simons" <[email protected]> writes: > maurizio .mau. codogno wrote > >>I agree that a section of sources would be very useful: as many have said, >> it is easier not to start from scratch if you want to edit a piece of sheet >> music. >>(I would even accept abc sources!) But I also >think that it would be better >>to >>have it as a side section of IMSLP, so that all stuff stays in a single place. > > I'm still not convinced it's worth the effort. If someone has a particular > piece in mind that they want the source for, they could just use the existing > IMSLP system to look for scores of that piece, and then scan thru the listing > so see if any of them comes with source files. > > However, if anyone really wants spend the effort go forward with this, maybe > the goal should be not to create a separate repository for the source files, > but simply to create a high-level "Sources" page leading to an index of only > those specific scores that have source files, with links to the scores and > source files in the current repository. The system could possibly make it > possible to do a filtered search by source type. > > Along that line, I've just discovered that if you use the IMSLP search box and > for example search for engraving files PMX , you get a very long list > presumably containing all the IMSLP offerings accompanied by PMX source files. > > --Don
Maybe the real problem is not quite a separate or non separate repository... It is rather maybe to give importance or not to forming, building and maintaining a collection, growing more and more during time, of TeXMusiX scores available to all users... For example the Musescore community is doing, so it seems, something similar with Musescore format... Thanks, Rodolfo ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
