Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas

You may want to look into the Lilypond syntax for textual score notation. - <a href="http://lilypond.org/" rel="nofollow">http://lilypond.org/</a>

Oh man, music notation on a computer is a path you don't want to start down. Take the oldest, crustiest, hacked together duct-taped programming language you can think of -- imagine what that language would be like if it would be still in use hundreds of years from now. That's music notation, today.<p>Even the really good programs like Sibelius (and I guess Finale...) still have a ways to go in terms of accurate notation. Attempting to reduce notation to a JSON-style dataset seems, well, extraordinarily challenging.

If the goal is to build a wysiwyg editor, finale and others have some implementation that regular musicians have learned to work with.<p>For a lot of people, the ability to do midi input is really important because when they write the music down a lot of the time they have to transcribe from their motions anyway. This is possibly more important than the actual explicit way that you write things down.

With MathML in the new Firefox engine and now music notation in canvas, browsers are going to be a bit more fun and beautiful.

Is there a link to the unminimized source for this? Looks awesome!