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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If I have to separate the treble & bass clefs, I probably lose the line that connects them, and the ability to line up the text to match the musical notation. There are too many ways ebook readers can parse the contents to be sure of lining anything up.
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My next concern is pretty text boxes--boxes of scrollwork or knotwork designs around text. I suppose those just get dropped in the ebook formats; I can't think of any simple way to include them.
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If you weren't working in Word, I'd suggest doing it in XHTML and CSS. You're right that you can't guarantee the display on every reader, but I think you can take a good swing at it from XHTML.
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not an expert, just beginning, actually. But from what I've read, both of the things you want above should be achievable. One way would be to use absolute pixel placement (which would not scale up to different size readers or text sizes) -- a better method might be to have a relative scale (percentages) of both the images and the text, so that whatever changes the size of the view would keep things together.
But it's probably not simple for a beginner like you (and me!) If it were worked out, though, I think such a technique would look great, and be mobile. Maybe Jellby's suggestion about SVG would make it easier.
Also, I think that if you pulled just the clef bars, it makes no logical difference whether the text is between or below -- it will not match up properly. But it might look more familiar between. And it might roughly match.
A high-quality recreation image of a full-page of music, with a searchable text fragment is a good suggestion -- might you hide the text beneath the image? Would a search for the text simply bring you to the image?
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