Embedded Lilypond

[J Martin Rushton]

I monitor the Dokuwiki* mailing list and today an interesting question
came up.  A user was trying to set a song with guitar chords over the
relevant notes, but proportional text was destroying his formatting.  A
couple of solutions were proposed: override the proportional text (which
needn't concern us here) or use an ABC plugin.  The latter hasn't been
maintained for years.

This got me thinking!  Wikipedia has the <score> markup, would it be
possible to do something similar for Dokuwiki?  Is there an embeddable
version of Lily?

I see two possible strategies here: (1) Use DW's media manager to keep a
.ly file and engrave from the file to generate output, or (2) use an
inline source.  In either case the output needs to be embeddable HTML
(and if possible a MIDI track).

Thoughts?



*For the interested: Dokuwiki (https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki) is a
wiki system based on plain text files and a php formatter.  Like Lily it
is designed to be extensible by the use of plugins, which users are
encouraged to publish.

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