It now has eleven pages that have been created by members of our community since it was launched back in November of 2009. The Music Notations section of the site has also received various refinements including making it clearer that the notation systems are ordered primarily by line spacing, and then by the number of lines per octave. We will be moving to this approach for all audio on the site, reducing compatibility issues and making it more accessible for our visitors.) (This uses the new HTML5 audio tag in browsers that support it, or reverts to Flash for those that do not. An audio clip has been added to let viewers hear the chromatic scale illustrated at the top of the page. The text in each section is now more concise, but with the option to reveal more discussion on each topic, according to the visitor’s interest. In addition to the revised layout, our site’s Intro (home) page has been streamlined and improved. Here is a screen shot of the old layout just for the record: While working on the blog, our webmaster was inspired to give our site a visual refresh in terms of its design/layout. The reason is that Blogger will be dropping support for FTP publishing on March 26th. We have moved our blog from Google’s Blogger software over to WordPress. He is affiliated with the KlavarScore website. Marco Mascioli has started work towards porting it to MS Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux. KLAVAR! was originally written in GFA Basic for the Atari ST. It is called KLAVAR!, and has been added to our Software page where it joins KlavarScript and Klavar Music Writer. In other software news, a third application for Klavar notation has been brought to our attention. A big thank you to Andrew for his work on this! Read more about it on the repository’s wiki and our Lilypond and Alternative Notation Systems page. This will make it easier for developers to work with the code, keep it compatible with newer versions of Lilypond, and eventually contribute our code back to the official Lilypond application. The most recent version of Kevin Dalley’s code is now hosted there, including the Mark Hanlon’s updates to it. In January Andrew Wagner set up a Git repository to help organize and facilitate future work on adding support for chromatic staves to Lilypond.
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