playing with sizing. this is the narrowest possible staff height (a charmingly awkward 9 pixels)
Feeling very excited about how this is going to look on the wiki. https://clarity.flowers/wiki/notate.html
Starting to build the language for entering notes. You enter notes using the first letter of solfege, and it'll pick the note closest to the previous one. You can move the cursor up or down to make bigger leaps with '+' or '-'. This is "notate 'drmfs-s+rtd'
@clarity wow just thought about how fun it would be to play around in an ncurses music notation editor
@joemama mine is probably going to be non-interactive because it'll be part of a larger pipeline, but I could definitely see that being really cool!
maybe this could be interesting for you?
https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score
(uses ABC/Lilypond)
Then there's also MuseScore's command line mode: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/command-line-options#Convert_a_score_to_PDF_from_the_command_line
@guenther ah, prior art might be a good reference point, thank you. I definitely want to write this myself, because that's in line with the general philosophy of the wiki
@clarity @neauoire i would be interested in that - i have a project running on github to add features to gitlab community edition - essentially define anything in text and it will render a png from it and replace the text with it. right now it understands about plantuml (graphwiz) as well as gnuplot and tex but im always looking for new stuff: https://github.com/elbosso/plantumlinterfaceproxy
@elbosso oh, neat, I like this line of thinking
@clarity I will use that tool 🤚
@zachdecook Yeah, I considered SVG as an output format, but I've found in practice that on average low-color, low-res PNGs can be much smaller in filesize than the equivalent SVG, not to mention the aesthetic appeal (my whole wiki is built on dithered low-res images).
Generation of palette-based PNGs. I wanted to write this entirely by hand, but it turns out that the PNG compression algorithm is more complicated than I want to deal with right now (I might end up switching to GIF later as that algo is simpler). So, I pulled in zlib and banged my head against it until it worked. Having test data from http://www.schaik.com/pngsuite/pngsuite_bas_png.html to do byte-by-byte comparisons via xxd helped a lot