Hello, 2011/8/18 Sandor Spruit <a.g.l.spr...@uu.nl>
> > Hello, > > I recently had an informal discussion with some collegues on the use of > SVG, in general. > They are in music research, I am a developer working on a completely > unrelated topic - > so please forgive me my ignorance w.r.t. music-related terminology. > > We discussed the possibilities to use music scores on web pages, and they > immediately > referred to Lilypond because of its quality output. While browsing this > list's archives, and > other on-line discussions for that matter, two questions came up: > > - In what version, exactly, did Lilypond drop the use of groups (svg:g) in > its output? > > I read a debate on this issue, where the key argument against groups was > the trouble > people have in editing grouped SVG elements in Inkscape. I can, however, > imagine all > sorts of situations in which group elements could be very useful - from a > developer's > point of view at least. This leads to the second question: > > - For what purpose are people putting music up on the web; what's the > typical use case? > > Just publishing it for others to read? Hyperlinking to it, from it? > Annotations? Keeping > bits and pieces of music for later reference? Learning? Studying? > Comparing versions? > > I may, at some point, be in the position to do some work on this. But I'm > hesitant to dive > in at the deep end - meaning Lilypond tens of thousands of lines of code > ... > > A bit of guidance might help though :) > cheers, > > Sandor Spruit > Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University > > ______________________________**_________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-u...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/**listinfo/lilypond-user<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user> > I can not answer your questions, but maybe developers list is better place to ask... forwarding. Marek
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