Help talk:Score

Xtag

{{xtag|score}} gives <score> which links to this help page. --  Gadget850 ^talk 18:06, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Size

Is there a way to control the size of the score? Generally, I think it's too big by at least 30%. Compare Alle Jahre wieder in this version using {{MusicScore}} with this version using <score>, or Ihr Kinderlein, kommet similarly before and after. I had a look at the documentation, but couldn't get any of the commands to reduce horizontal spacing to work and I didn't find anything about scaling the output as a whole. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 08:30, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Seconded. Of course there is Lilypond syntax to change the output size, but the default size is somewhat large to my taste.--KlausFoehl (talk) 12:23, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

I would be grateful if you could produce an example in smaller size; this would be useful for the incipits at 42 études ou caprices and probably in a lot of other articles. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:38, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

<score> #(set-global-staff-size 14) { \clef bass c8 c c c c c c c } </score>

That usually works, but not here - maybe due to security reasons?? (submitted as question at mediawiki) --KlausFoehl (talk) 18:56, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Right "a"

How do I get the "second" a, if I write:

<score> \relative c' { a } </score>

I get this:

But if I write:

<score> \relative c' { f a } </score>

I get (its this a I want to have at the beginning): Christian75 (talk) 11:12, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

You could either specify the explicit octave for a' or change the relative anchor: <score>{ a' }</score> gives and <score>\relative f' { a }</score> gives also . -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:51, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Formatting the examples

This looks great, but the current format for showing the markup in the examples doesn't really work. You're using some special tag, and it breaks the pagewrapping and also doesn't clearly show use of ' (because they get treated as marking italics and bolding). It would be clearer to use the plain <nowiki> tags around it.

Is there a good reason why the special tags were being used instead? 86.161.209.128 (talk) 19:55, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

I just took the use of the template {{tag}} as I found it on the page. I think it displays almost all wikicode properly, except the pipe character. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:15, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

But it messed up the multiple apostrophes, interpreting them as italics. -- Ypnypn (talk) 03:23, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

You're right, I see it now. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:31, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

That's much better. But what's the advantage of using the tag template, rather than nowiki? What does it do? If you use nowiki, you'd just write out exactly what coding you use, and it displays it exactly (so you wouldn't need the pipe work-arounds). Is breaking the pagewrapping an advantage? 86.161.209.128 (talk) 06:40, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Give me a bit and I will do a vertical version of {{markup}}. --  Gadget850 ^talk 09:39, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Here is a preliminary example:

Example

Markup	<score>\relative c' { f d f a d f e d cis a cis e aes g f e }</score>
Renders as

--  Gadget850 ^talk 20:50, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Verses and stanzas, ties and slurs, and other great info

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Verses and stanzas

If I type:

<score>\relative c' { f2 e4 c } \addlyrics { \set stanza = #"1. " If I could... } \addlyrics { \set stanza = #"2. " What a shame... }</score>

I get:

Ties and slurs

Example:

Markup	<score>\relative c' { c( b~ c b c b c b c~ c)}</score>
Renders as

†

Dynamics

Example:

Markup	<score>\relative c' { a\ff\> b c\! d\pp}</score>
Renders as

Anacrusis

Example:

Markup	<score>\relative c' { \partial 4 c d d c}</score>
Renders as

Grouped notes

Example:

Markup	<score>\relative c' { \times 2/3 { c e g c c c g e} c}</score>
Renders as

Repeats

Coming soon! — Preceding unsigned comment added by QM400032 (talk • contribs) 02:36, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Notes

†"I don't understand how ties work!" Yes, there really is a problem, but I might be fixing it – with adding the same note afterwards.

QM400032 (talk) 23:30, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Error messages

I pulled the error list from the code:

Interface page	Text
MediaWiki:score-backend-error	Unable to copy the generated files to their final location: $1
MediaWiki:score-desc	Adds a tag for rendering musical scores with LilyPond
MediaWiki:score-error-category	Pages with score rendering errors
MediaWiki:score-getcwderr	Unable to obtain current working directory
MediaWiki:score-invalidlang	Invalid score language lang="$1". Currently recognized languages are lang="lilypond" (the default) and lang="ABC".
MediaWiki:score-invalidoggoverride	The file "$1" you specified with override_ogg is invalid. Please specify the file name only, omit [[…]] and the "File:" prefix.

If we create help for these, we can edit the interface pages to link. --  Gadget850 ^talk 00:21, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Copyrights

How does copyright law apply to the use of musical scores in Wikipedia?
—Wavelength (talk) 22:37, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry. --  Gadget850 ^talk 23:20, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. That page can be listed under "See also" on "Help:Score".

—Wavelength (talk) 23:48, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Score and pdf

Tracked in Bugzilla
Bug 63589

Hello, it looks like score cannot be rendered to pdf, only the source code will be printed.--Sinuhe20 (talk) 21:09, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Filed a bug. --Glaisher [talk] 09:23, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Version?

Which version of LilyPond is used as the backend of the Score extension on Wikipedia? The are syntax changes that break compatibility between, for example, v2.12 and v2.16. Sammo (now Burkenyo) (talk) 23:13, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

@Burkenyo: (I think you're the Sammo that wrote above) I asked this question at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 137#Lilypond version and it seems that it uses Lilypond 2.14. I added this information to Help:Score. Fern 24 (talk) 13:29, 22 June 2015 (UTC)