ColorMusic plugin (note head colors, shapes, and outlines)

• Jan 14, 2015 - 10:34

Hello,

I need to update an existing plugin for MuseScore. Any feedback on the feasibility is MOST APPRECIATED! Mac and Windows versions of the current plugin are found here:

http://mycolormusic.com/backstage/musescore-plugin/

WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO:

-- in addition to colorizing each note and adding a note head shape for each (as the script already does), I also need the plugin to add a thin (0.25 pt) black outline around each note head when colorized. To add these outlines currently, I must export the colorized MuseScore song as a PDF ... and then open the PDF in Adobe Illustrator ... and then apply a separate script in Illustrator that replaces the note head font generated by MuseScore with a font that has the desired color, shape, and outline for each note. These multiple steps are cumbersome. So I would like to consolidate this process into a single plugin that functions directly within MuseScore (... color, shape, AND outline applied all at once within MuseScore).

-- also when exporting from MuseScore to a PDF or .ps file, I would like to slightly adjust the stroke weights of lines that appear in a song (see attached image). Is this possible? And, if so, can it be done within a single MuseScore plugin?

Thank you! I sincerely appreciate any feedback on the feasibility of these functions. And if they are possible, can you provide any direction on how this can be done? (I'm not a programmer). I know someone in this forum is a genius ... and I'd love to hear from you. :)

--Mike

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Comments

I don't think you'd be able to add outlones around noteheads, whether in a plugin or otherwise. Noteheads are just glyphs from a special font, they aren't "drawn" as shapes.

The rest is easily doable in 2.0 with no plugin required. Those line thickness are all settings in Style / General.

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