09-21-2018, 01:53 AM
Yes, sheet music. I would generate them myself from ABC notation. I have to admit that I wasn't aware of the SVG format before discovering and working with ABC last year.
But since you asked yourself I reckon you haven't looked far into ABC and its possibilities so far.
I recommend to look at the utilities of Jef Moine
http://moinejf.free.fr/
which have made ABC notation so interesting.
abcm2ps is a command line program which converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript or SVG format (or XHTML format).
It's used by many applications for displaying the sheet music (also available for Android).
abc2svg is a rewrite of abcm2ps into Javascript which allows to use ABC notation with WYSIWYG display of the sheet music in browsers and on webpages
(see for instance https://zn-live.zupfnoter.de/ )
With the tools of Wim DeVree
https://wim.vree.org/svgParse/index.html
you can convert MusicXML to ABC (and vice versa) and display it with abcm2ps/abcm2svg and much more.
See https://wim.vree.org/js/index.html for some impressive examples how MXML or ABC are read and converted to SVG and displayed.
Well, what I'm looking for in the future (probably far at the end of your todolist) is reading (and editing) ABC and MXML in MSP and displaying it with the capabilities
of the aforementioned utilities which would be something like "chordpro for real sheet music" because it's editable and transposable.
I have that somewhat with the programs EasyABC on Windows and A La Mode on Android already. But if this would be integrated in MSP with all its features of organizing,
annotations, versioning and so, it would be simply great.
Back to SVG. I'm converting a lot of my sheet music to ABC for the aforementioned reasons. I can convert this to PDF for now as long as MSP doesn't feature ABC. But Jef Moine
integrates new features only into abc2svg so if I want to have those I have to use abc2svg and it's not always so easy to convert these to PDF. So a native display of SVG in MSP (for now)
would be quite helpful.
What I've seen so far didn't take long to draw sheet music and display it in browsers. Do you want to have some SVG files as examples? I'm no expert in all of this and just an interested
user. But if you have more questions I'll happily try to provide more answers.
But since you asked yourself I reckon you haven't looked far into ABC and its possibilities so far.
I recommend to look at the utilities of Jef Moine
http://moinejf.free.fr/
which have made ABC notation so interesting.
abcm2ps is a command line program which converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript or SVG format (or XHTML format).
It's used by many applications for displaying the sheet music (also available for Android).
abc2svg is a rewrite of abcm2ps into Javascript which allows to use ABC notation with WYSIWYG display of the sheet music in browsers and on webpages
(see for instance https://zn-live.zupfnoter.de/ )
With the tools of Wim DeVree
https://wim.vree.org/svgParse/index.html
you can convert MusicXML to ABC (and vice versa) and display it with abcm2ps/abcm2svg and much more.
See https://wim.vree.org/js/index.html for some impressive examples how MXML or ABC are read and converted to SVG and displayed.
Well, what I'm looking for in the future (probably far at the end of your todolist) is reading (and editing) ABC and MXML in MSP and displaying it with the capabilities
of the aforementioned utilities which would be something like "chordpro for real sheet music" because it's editable and transposable.
I have that somewhat with the programs EasyABC on Windows and A La Mode on Android already. But if this would be integrated in MSP with all its features of organizing,
annotations, versioning and so, it would be simply great.
Back to SVG. I'm converting a lot of my sheet music to ABC for the aforementioned reasons. I can convert this to PDF for now as long as MSP doesn't feature ABC. But Jef Moine
integrates new features only into abc2svg so if I want to have those I have to use abc2svg and it's not always so easy to convert these to PDF. So a native display of SVG in MSP (for now)
would be quite helpful.
What I've seen so far didn't take long to draw sheet music and display it in browsers. Do you want to have some SVG files as examples? I'm no expert in all of this and just an interested
user. But if you have more questions I'll happily try to provide more answers.