Last modified: 2013-04-23 17:13:13 UTC
Lilypond allows the input of musical scores in a manner similar to LaTeX. This is very important for Wikisource as we current have to use the very labor intensive method of scanning pages from a book; cropping out the music; uploading the crops; and formatting as an image. Curently an entire Musical Encyclopeia is being added to en.WS and example page is: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Complete_Encyclopaedia_of_Music/A/accent This feature is greatly needed for this and other musical projects at Wikisource.
Is there a working extension for this? Seemingly [[w:Wikipedia:WikiTex]] exists, but I'm not clear on whether it's of usable quality level at this point.
Blah, make that [[Wikipedia:WikiTeX]].
It is available at other MediaWiki wikis http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Music http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page I don't know if there are still unresovled issues for us or not. But if there are please resolve them.
Look at [[Bug 189]] There is something there but it is over my head
Hi, Comment on bug 189: It is a simple extension using Lilypond (you have to have Lilypond installed in order to operate this). The music is typeset by enclosing Lilypond notation into <lilypond>..</lilypond> tags. It is very easy: <lilypond>c4 d e f g</lilypond> creates a scale from c to g, in quarter notes. (It could be that the tag is actually <lily>, not <lilypond>, but I do not remember off-hand, because it is such a long time ago that I made the extension.) Ciao, Dscho
Tim considers Lilypond too inherently unsafe. We'll want something that's cleaner and more secure.
*** Bug 27014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #6) > Tim considers Lilypond too inherently unsafe. > > We'll want something that's cleaner and more secure. I'll be bold and reopen this request since on bug 189 comment 37 (from 2008), Tim Starling said "[...] if you really want to write a LilyPond extension, you could at least go to the trouble of reviewing its security [...]" and there is a specific request to fix the problem of DoS attacks on Bug 29630.
Marking later, it isn't actionable until it's fixed
For the record, I think it is more likely we will get bug 33193 fixed than this one.
This is now fixed, FWIW.
