Re: Feature Request Idea - Server Sent Musical Scores

[hjenkins]

> hjenkins, have you used or tested any of them?
No, sorry. Just got them off the Lilypond dev discussions online :).

> > using video rather than a JS player that syncs the audio and notation.
This has the major advantage that you can download it, put it on a local 
intranet, and play it repeatedly, without consuming bandwidth. Trying to 
get a page which depends on Javascript to display offline is a serious 
pain, and illegal in some jurisdictions.

Besides Lilypond, which makes very good-looking scores, there are other 
music-score formats. There are also decent if imperfect open-source 
tools to interconvert them. For many possible conversions, there are 
multiple open-source converters, and some are rather obscure features in 
larger programs (in particular, most things will export Lilypond). If 
you'll tell me what conversion you want I'll try to find it. Just 
implementing the format that's easiest/best to render into a video might 
give decent functionality in several other formats without complete 
duplication of effort.

ABC notation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation
MusicXML (W3C format)
MEI (an academic format)
Braille Music: https://tobyrush.com/braillemusic/notator/

Verovio (an SVG and audio renderer for MIDI, MEI and sorta-MusicXML, 
displays in browser, LGPLv3) might also be of interest.
"The SVG output of Verovio is designed as an intermediate reflowable 
layer that facilitates the development of interactive applications, such 
as music notation editors or interactive digital editions." - 
https://www.verovio.org/index.xhtml