Christian Mondrup <[email protected]> writes: >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Rodolfo Medina >> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 2:12 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Tex-music] IMSLP Chopin's mazurka pmx engraving files >> >> With the occasion, I renew my proposal of creating a separate repository >> with PMX/MusiXTeX sources. They are only 1% of all the scores in IMSLP now: >> creating such a separate section could hopefully have the effect of, or >> help, increasing them... > > Unfortunately not as easy as you might imagine. IMSLP is based on Wikipedia > software. Compositions are handled in 'work pages' which are basically > Wikipedia articles. A work page registers a composition and any number of > engravings, including scans of old, out-of-copyright printed scores and/or > autographs and new engravings. If any of the new engravings are prepared with > musixtex they can't just be moved to another context. It would require quite > heavy Wikimedia template programming to tag musixtex engravings such that they > could be looked up as a separate group. Provided a suitable template were > provided then IMSLP staff members or volunteers capable of editing work pages > would need to look up all musixtex engravings (using the IMSLP Google search > facility) and mark the software files (if present). I'm afraid that'll never > happen.
Maybe the new PMX/MusiXTeX repository could work `from now on' for new submissions, and the old ones already present in IMSLP could gradually, one at a time, from time to time, now and then, when anybody feels like, be moved into the new archive... 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
