I've done it before, but usually behind a cut-tag (and I don't know whether you see everything I post, or if, like me, you get behind, miss a bunch of stuff on your friends page, and don't get caught up again). This time I figured the image was probably not wide enough to screw up anybody's friends-page formatting, and skipped the cut-tag.
I'm still playing with ways to make music auto-format to the width of the browser window (or the relevant CSS region of the window). Best would be a nearly universally installed plug-in that rendered from ABC on the fly and gave the viewer controls for zooming and maybe other formatting tweaks (maybe even a play-as-MIDI button), but first the plug-in needs to be written and then enough people have to decide it's worth installing ...
Another thing I've tried in the past is a separate image for each measure, so the browser will just line-wrap the row of images at display time (this means no clef and key signature at the start of lines other than the very first, but most folks could deal with that, right?). The trouble with that one is that chopping up an image of a score by hand is tedious, and I haven't figured out how to automate it with ImageMagick yet because ledger lines affect vertical spacing, which causes problems getting adjacent measures to line up correctly if they originally came from different lines.
The other idea I had was to use SVG as my image format and specify the height and width attributes of the IMG tag in percents, but it turns out not enough browsers support SVG well yet, and the ones that I tried that displayed SVG at all truncated the image instead of scaling it (so what's the point of the 'S' in SVG then?). If I could get SVG to work, then I'd 'merely' need to either write a PS->SVG converter or modify the back end of my favourite ABC engraving tool to generate SVG instead of PS directly.
So for now I try to guess at a legible size for most folks, and try to guess whether I need to tuck it behind a cut-tag to avoid breaking their layout or having to scroll horizontally to read the rest of their friends-pages.
As for not notating the rubato: good point. You're right.
Though I created an IJ account a while ago, I've only been using it regularly in the past week or so, so I did miss a lot. With the acquisition of LiveJournal by SUP, and recent lunacy such as blocking of search terms like "spice girls" and "raccoon" because they have substrings which are ethnic epithets (I'm not kidding!), more people are moving to InsaneJournal for a breath of sanity.
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I'm still playing with ways to make music auto-format to the width of the browser window (or the relevant CSS region of the window). Best would be a nearly universally installed plug-in that rendered from ABC on the fly and gave the viewer controls for zooming and maybe other formatting tweaks (maybe even a play-as-MIDI button), but first the plug-in needs to be written and then enough people have to decide it's worth installing ...
Another thing I've tried in the past is a separate image for each measure, so the browser will just line-wrap the row of images at display time (this means no clef and key signature at the start of lines other than the very first, but most folks could deal with that, right?). The trouble with that one is that chopping up an image of a score by hand is tedious, and I haven't figured out how to automate it with ImageMagick yet because ledger lines affect vertical spacing, which causes problems getting adjacent measures to line up correctly if they originally came from different lines.
The other idea I had was to use SVG as my image format and specify the height and width attributes of the IMG tag in percents, but it turns out not enough browsers support SVG well yet, and the ones that I tried that displayed SVG at all truncated the image instead of scaling it (so what's the point of the 'S' in SVG then?). If I could get SVG to work, then I'd 'merely' need to either write a PS->SVG converter or modify the back end of my favourite ABC engraving tool to generate SVG instead of PS directly.
So for now I try to guess at a legible size for most folks, and try to guess whether I need to tuck it behind a cut-tag to avoid breaking their layout or having to scroll horizontally to read the rest of their friends-pages.
As for not notating the rubato: good point. You're right.
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