[MEI-L] New version of mei-friend released

[Werner Goebl]

Dear MEI community,

We are happy to announce a new release (version 0.6) of mei-friend, the 
online “last-mile” MEI editor available at https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at. 
You may have noticed a rolling release over the past week or two.

The most important new features include:

*Validation against MEI schema.* Based on the code of the Verovio editor 
kindly provided by Laurent Pugin, mei-friend automatically loads the RNG 
schema specified in the MEI file to validate the encoding. It makes use 
of Gnome’s libxml2. Validation behaviour is configurable (automatic or 
on-demand) through the mei-friend settings.

*Select Verovio toolkit version.* You may choose the Verovio toolkit 
version for engraving your music encoding through the mei-friend 
settings panel, starting from version 3.7.0. (There are known memory 
issues with versions before 3.11.0 that may require a reload of the 
application.)

*Extended support for URL parameters* to remote-control mei-friend, 
intended particularly to support applications in pedagogical settings. 
These parameters are summarised on the Help page 
(https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at/help), and allow various options to be set 
or toggled, MEI file URLs to be supplied, and automated forking to be 
requested. The automated forking walks a user through the process of 
forking and opening their own version of an MEI file in a GitHub 
repository. Try it out:
https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at/?file=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trompamusic-encodings/Beethoven_Op120_BreitkopfHaertel/master/Beethoven_Op120-Breitkopf.mei&speed=true&fork=true&autoValidate=false&notationOrientation=top 


*Facsimile support.* mei-friend makes the content of the facsimile 
element accessible by displaying zone elements on top of the surface 
images in a dedicated facsimile panel, providing interactive zone 
editing functionality (resizing, panning, inserting & deleting zones) as 
well as an automated workflow for ingesting external facsimile content 
into MEI encodings. Try it out: 
https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at/?notationOrientation=top&notationProportion=.6&facsimileOrientation=left&facsimileProportion=.45&breaks=line&file=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trompamusic-encodings/Beethoven_Op76_BreitkopfHaertel/master/Beethoven_Op76-Breitkopf-Haertel.mei 


*Annotation support.* The annotation panel provides tooling for 
generating in-line <annot> elements, as well as for listing, navigating 
between, and visualising annotations of different types – currently: 
highlighting, describing, and linking. More extensive support for 
annotation activities, including generating stand-off Web Annotations, 
is planned for future development. Try it out (open annotation panel 
through pencil icon at the top-right corner): 
https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at/?file=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/musicog/Beethoven_WoO80_BreitkopfHaertel/master/Beethoven_WoO80-Breitkopf.mei&breaks=line 


If you have comments or suggestions for improvements, we would love to 
hear from you! Please use the Help -> Provide Feedback menu option in 
mei-friend to send us your feature request, bug report, or proposed 
addition to mei-friend’s list of public repertoire.

All the best,

Werner and David

-- 
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Werner Goebl
Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil (IWK)
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43 1 71155 4311
Fax. +43 1 71155 4399
http://iwk.mdw.ac.at/goebl