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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
If the musical notation is available as a PD font, would it be possible to embed the font? Because then you could "break" the musical notation pages into 3 images. A smallish left image (3-15 pixels or whatever), it's mirror image for the right side of the page, and a middle image 1 pixel wide and however many high, set to be repeated.
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I have worked with musical notation fonts. I am willing to do so again... but not for a free, "fun" project involving several hundred pages (over the 10 books) of music. Nope, nope, nope; I am not that kind of masochist.
It's like learning a language and advanced typographical layouts all at once. Half an hour into it, and I'd be screaming "I am not being paid enough to do this!" (And then realize that I'm not being paid at all to do this, and give up on it.)
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Now that the musical bars are accounted for you can "type" the musical notation on top of these images, along with the song lyrics.
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Musical notation fonts have the bars and clefs and all that stuff built in. That's the easy parts. It's getting the notes to line up, adding the little arches and making sure the right notes connect to each other, and all the weird kerning issues, that are the problem.
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The only other thing that I can think of is to take a look at some musical software that offers printing of musical scores to see how they handle things. Particularly any websites that provide similar features. Any such site is dealing in HTML and you're not much different. You might find some creation tips there.
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They're not trying to get the music to display in a half-dozen different kinds of readers. For the most part, they don't care about digital displays at all. You can bet they never say, "I wonder how this will look on a Kindle or iPhone?"