Keep in mind that there is also a few different LaTeX packages designed for typesetting music:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...music-in-latex
One of the largest looks to be MusiXTeX (downloads, guides, samples (source, PDFs, MIDIs)):
http://www.mab.jpn.org/musictex/index_en.html
The documentation PDF for MusiXTeX can be found here:
http://icking-music-archive.org/soft...x/musixdoc.pdf
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Originally Posted by PeterT
I would say just include an URL within the book where supplemental material can be obtained.
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I would agree, you can always just include an image, and then below, say something like:
"For a higher quality PDF version of this sheet music, visit: http://sample.com/sheetmusic"
Same with the MIDI, would probably be best to just host it somewhere else and link to it within the book.
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Originally Posted by Psymon
I'm not sure if I'm quite that ambitious, to learn a whole new program and everything, as I already have the music done up in both image format and PDF [...]
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What program did you use to create the music? Perhaps you can just export directly to SVG from there.
If anything, you could always just use something like Inkscape to import the PDF -> export to Plain SVG.
Has anyone stumbled across a music book designed in EPUB? I must admit, I have never seen such a thing (although I assume they are out there, and using SVG).
I would think most devices would be too thin to fit a reasonable amount of music on them, although you might be able to put the images sideways, so that the device could be held in landscape mode.
Side Note: Also, please tell me you made the images PNGs, and NOT those dreadful JPGs.
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Originally Posted by Psymon
Oh, just one question... if I did make this into SVG format (which from the help files for that program it would seem I also have to embed fonts, too, in order to get them to actually show up), how does one insert those SVG images? Do you add them in basically like any other images, i.e. <img src= blah blah blah?
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A while back there was a topic by MikeWV, who was wanting to insert SVG tables/graphs into his book. We had a big discussion, and there were lots of sample EPUBs:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=240980
You could always take apart the EPUBs and take a look at the code, and test them on iBooks and see how they work (if they are buggy or not). Also, be sure to test things such as changing the background colors (Night Mode, etc. etc.). For example, I found that the color of the SVG images did not change color in Calibre, leading to Black lines on Black background (although I must admit, this might have just been because of some leftover crud in the SVG code due to the way I exported it, I haven't delved as deep into SVG as I would like).