Mus-icon shortage

[robcat2075]

I was reading a post by a member where he had to very awkwardly describe a musical pattern that would have been far more easily conveyed in notation.

We have an enormous set of available smilies but not enough music icons to even make a C scale in bass clef.

TCsmilies.jpg

If I made a more complete set of musical symbols, would they get used?

[Matt K]

Those assets were copied from the old forum. That was one of my first programming projects and I made a mistake that didn't quite get everything (understatement of the century) and so the assets we have are the ones that were essentially the ones used in the articles I scraped. If you finish out the notes I can add them pretty easily. I can't think of a time when I ever used them personally and if I did, I'd usually fire up Sibelius and write it out but I could see the utility, personally.

[robcat2075]

I propose making a new, larger, more legible set.

The current icons have just three pixels per space


five pixels per space looks like this...

notes5px.png

nine pixels looks like this...

notes9px.png

[ithinknot]

pixels per space

Five - nine would break things up too much if you slipped them into general text.

[robcat2075]

Yes, I think five will do.

I am surprised that there is not already some available opensource code for forums that would enable inputting brief musical elements into posts, much like there are tools that enable the proper display of mathematical formulas.

But after looking around, i can't see that anything like that exists.

[soseggnchips]

I am surprised that there is not already some available opensource code for forums that would enable inputting brief musical elements into posts, much like there are tools that enable the proper display of mathematical formulas.

Yeah, it's a shame there's not a plugin that could interpret in-line Lilypond code or similar... guess it's a pretty niche requirement though.

[robcat2075]

Here is a page that generates a line of notation using HTML and CSS

https://codepen.io/gvissing/pen/BKmmpJ

[robcat2075]

I'm still investigating the non-image possibilities.

Check this out

Lassus Font

Type 1)_+QWERT into the sample text box and you'll get a C major scale in bass clef.

However, I don't see a way to make this easy to use for the forum.

[robcat2075]

huh...


A list of Sheet Music Display Libraries for Web browsers