♩ ScoreRender ♫

ScoreRender is a Wordpress plugin for rendering sheet music fragments into images. Currently it supports the following music notations:

• ABC
• GUIDO
• Lilypond
• Mup
• Philip’s Music Writer

It supports converting fragments in excerpts, posts, pages and (optionally) comments.

Download and Installation

ScoreRender can be downloaded through upper right icon on this site. All versions since 0.2 have been moved and hosted on wordpress.

Please read the install instruction thoroughly before using this plugin. Installation of the dependent applications are not very trivial, especially on Linux.

To use the plugin, go ahead to Typesetting Introduction page and learn more about each notation (or just the notation you’re interested).

Demo

After all the hard work (installation and configuration), and lots of learning about notation, it’s payback time. Some of the programs, when typesetted correctly, can approach publish quality. Here is an example:

Want to see and learn more? Jump to the showcases!

Development

Want to help or contribute?

• You are welcome to check out news about recent progress.
• Take a look at Googlecode repository, download a copy of development version and try it out (note: it might break from time to time!)
• Bug reports are very welcome!

History

ScoreRender started its life from Chris Lamb’s FigureRender plugin, which is a Wordpress plugin for rendering LaTeX and Lilypond music fragments into images. Abel Cheung submits some enhancement against FigureRender, but later it turns out Chris does not have as much time as he wants to continue the development.

So Abel continued enhancing it, adding more music notation support, and submitted most of FigureRender’s improvement back to another LaTeX rendering plugin, LatexRender. After the merge LaTeX support is dropped from Chris’ code, thus the rename of project. (with Chris’ bless)

Credits

• Abel Cheung (primary author)
• Chris Lamb (this plugin is based on his)
• Joseph Huckaby for the flash-based Zero Clipboard, which is used for copying music score code into clipboard.
• Angus Turnbull for the TwinHelix IE PNG fix, which enables PNG translucency for IE 6 or below.

License

Since 0.3.3, ScoreRender itself is licensed under GNU Affero General Public License 3.0. Older versions are licensed under GPL v2. Besides, a few components from other authors are incorporated into ScoreRender. Here are their licenses:

• Zero Clipboard is licensed under LGPL.
• TwinHelix IE PNG fix is licensed under LGPL v2.1 or later.