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VexFlow – HTML5 Music Engraving (vexflow.com)
22 points by mrzool on Dec 6, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Very nicely done.

Minor nitpick - the slurs/ties could be cleaner. If you look at professional musical typesetting, slurs/ties usually go from the middle to the middle of each note head, unless they cross a note stem. Then they get as close as possible to the head without overlapping the stem.

They shouldn't overlap other symbols, including accidentals or dots.

Otherwise, great job!


This is awesome!

Music notation/engraving is something that isn't widely supported, partially due to its complexity. There are a few more or less expensive tools out there, but I haven't seen many attempts at something open source and even less for the browser.


The reference open source software for this is LilyPond.

http://www.lilypond.org/

The innovation with VexFlow seems to be that it runs in a browser.


engraving...?



looks great though!




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