LaTeX - score export

Tₑχ/LᴬTᴇΧ don’t do SVG natively, but with a trick this is still the best way to go. You’ll need to have Inkscape installed.

Do this:

• export score as SVG, let’s call it musica1.svg
• if you have Inkscape 1.x (the current version), run inkscape -C --export-filename=musica1.pdf --export-type=pdf --export-pdf-version=1.4 musica1.svg
• else you have Inkscape 0.x and run inkscape -C -z --export-pdf=musica1.pdf --export-pdf-version=1.4 musica1.svg
• in your Tₑχ/LᴬTᴇΧ preample, add PNG support for graphics, that is, add the line \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.eps,.png,.jpg}% if you don’t have it yet, or add .pdf to the list if you already have it
• then you can do the usual \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{musica1}% dance

Enjoy! (And don’t hesitate to write back if you need assistance. I know Tₑχ/LᴬTᴇΧ are beasts, and I’ve also yet to tame them, although I got some common-to-me situations to work.)

MWE:


\documentclass{article}%
\usepackage{graphicx}%
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.eps,.png,.jpg}%

\begin{document}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{musica1}%
\end{document}


OK, maybe exporting directly as PDF from MuseScore is better, given the problems with its SVG export. You’ll have to specify the page in Tₑχ/LᴬTᴇΧ then.

• export as e.g. musica2.pdf
• add \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.eps,.png,.jpg}% like in the other answer
• add page=_n_ when including the image
• choose one of the two cropping types (trim takes away a specific amount, bb sets a bounding box)

MWE, using equivalent values for trim and bb so the output is the same for a DIN ISO A4 (21x29.7 cm) page (so you can do the maths):


\documentclass{article}%
\usepackage{graphicx}%
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.eps,.png,.jpg}%

% bb: lower left, upper right; from the lower left corner of the unscaled image
\includegraphics[page=2,bb=0cm 20cm 21cm 26cm,clip,width=\linewidth]{musica2}%
\end{document}


Given https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss/5149436#co… one really must not use MuseScore’s SVG export unless they positively know it works for their situations.

So, best use PDF export and then “cut that to size”.

Best to save as PDF, which Tₑχ/LᴬTᴇΧ can use directly (see above).

There’s also a tool called pdfcrop, part of texlive-extra-utils (albeit without a manual page), which can automatically crop the background away from all PDF files, so you can that in combination with the \includegraphics[…]{name}% parameters to scale things to the correct size without any pixel artefacts.

That ⓐ kinda defeats the purpose of having MuseScore-format scores and ⓑ will look visually different, though…

That’s a great tool to have… iff the limitations are acceptable:

> This converter is primary used to transfer songs of Falešné společenstvo from Mozart music processor to MusixTeX typesetting notation via small subset of MusicXML 3.0 format.

It also has the same issue of the music losing the Mu͒seScore visual design. Again, that may or may not be okay, depending on the use cases.