Adding Guido support to my plugin
Now GUIDO music notation is also supported in my (still) unreleased Wordpress plugin (subversion repository available though). It is basically a modified version of Chris Lamb’s FigureRender plugin, dropping latex support and adding support for other music notations; sadly it seems Chris has no time to continue working on it. Dropping latex support is due to my discussion with Steve Mayer about merging improved latex configuration back to his LatexRender plugin.
BTW, I start to recognize supporting GUIDO notation is not such a great thing. Before looking more deeply into GUIDO specification and putting it under practical rendering, everything looks wonderful to me — a web service called NoteServer, an open source implementation of parser library under SourceForge, plugin available for Sibelius and Finale… everything points to the conclusion that it is a greatly supported notation format.
But I didn’t notice other clues: this project is in articulo mortis. Not really dead (there is still a little CVS activity), but slow to a crawl. No news and no release since early 2004. So-called advanced notation spec never materialized. The source code doesn’t even compile on my Linux box (probably a bit better on Windows and OS X?). Last but not least, it doesn’t really live up to its word. See a real testing below.
The fragments below show how GUIDO and Mup renders the first 2 bars from Prokofiev 8th Sonata 2nd movement. First it’s GUIDO:
Now it’s mup’s turn. THIS is what people really should see.
No specific tuning for both of them, except adjusting font size for Mup (GUIDO doesn’t even allow that). No cross-stave barline, ugly slur by default (I don’t want to do any trial-and-error with bezier curve, not to mention NoteServer doesn’t conform to its own spec now), doesn’t support dynamics in between staves, doesn’t support more than one string on the same beat (notice GUIDO has eaten the dolce string). GUIDO is good for research interest, but in no way can it match publication quality.
Feb 22 edit: the GUIDO source fragment is available in comment.
2009-05-01: Comment is removed since music source can be viewed by clicking on image.