This is an awesome tool, on which I've come to depend a great deal for using Gregorio to typeset chant.
Which is why I'm wondering if there is a problem with the system, right now, because for the past couple of days, it has refused to generate PDFs. Instead, I get a "This webpage is not available" message.
Apparently the filesystem on the server crashed, so it will be a bit of time before we can get this back up. I will try to remember to post here when it is back up.
It turns out that this wasn't in as bad a state as I had previously understood. Thus I have been able to get it working again, but please let me know if you notice anything not working.
The only thing better would be a GUI interface to use locally with Gregorio.
I understand Gregorio is open source. Perhaps if the code running on the web-ui were to be open sourced (via GitHub or other) this could be expanded or adapted to desktop use.
I thought I had mentioned in the other thread about this that the code is open source. I suppose I should put something on the site itself, but the code that it is running is all hosted at http://code.google.com/p/gregoriophp/
Here are some slightly overengineered instructions for getting a local PHP environment going on any computer that can run VirtualBox and Vagrant (which is pretty much any computer).
You might substitute Vagrant's own getting-started guide for the section titled "Installing Vagrant", which assumes command-line comfort and includes outdated links.
I run XAMPP to set up a local Apache web server that runs PHP. I have not tried to set up gregorio locally, though- is the Gregoio/TeX stuff included in the PHP code base, or does that need to be spun-up and coordinated?
Thanks Adam -- I was trying to remember XAMPP but couldn't (never actually used it and I do use VB every day).
One nice thing about the VB/Vagrant combo -- in principle someone could write a Vagrantfile that would install gregoriophp and any of its dependencies (ghostscript, etc.).
I'm looking at the code now and it would also need some small changes -- there are hard-coded directory names in it etc. I think Vagrant could take care of all of that as well.
Then the whole process of getting a local gregoriophp running could be reduced to a few clicks (and maybe a tiny bit of typing...).
I wanted to jump on the wagon and cast my vote for a local version of the Gregorio UI... My internet is down very often at work and a local version would take some of the pressure off!
sidenote, for someone with more time: Aside from simple pretending your computer is a web server and running the app in-browser, there are also tools that make it possible to compile PHP apps for desktop use. That would be neat.
Is there is a problem with the system? For the last day or so, it has refused to generate PDFs. Instead, I get this...
{"file":"tmp\/gregorio51b89b9ab82f83.42693983.tex","error":"\n\nThis is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012062812 (TeX Live 2012)\n restricted \\write18 enabled."}
@tomjaw I have made some changes recently, but nothing that appeared to have broken anything. Please paste exactly what is in the textbox when you click "Gregorio PDF", and I should be able to fix it.
OK. It should be fixed now. It was only affecting things when multiple GABC scores were being included in one document, and so I hadn't noticed it when I made the change that broke it.
It is all working fine now. I am using a Apple Mac, running Safari... Also the Chrome version works!
Thank you very much for this excellent program!
I see that you got the texts from divinumofficium.com, I have found a few errors on that site, I use the 1957 Missale Romanum on the site linked below, the only errors I have found is in a couple of the collects that start Quaesumus.. the ae has not scanned.
It is misleading to say that I got the texts from Divinum Officium, because I only used the text from Divinum Officium to find the GABC for the chant on gregobase. I had not known of that other site before.
@ClemensRomanus From illuminarepublications.com/gregorio you can just put a bunch of them in the text box. Any time it finds a line that looks like a GABC header, it will assume that is the beginning of a new GABC score. I only added this last Thursday, and didn't mention it anywhere, but if you use the propers tool I wrote to get a PDF, it is obviously putting a bunch of GABC scores in one document.
while you're in there, would it be possible to add font size as another variable in the GABC header? This would be a major Godsend for me.
Sometimes I need to run a lot of files, copying and pasting in the code for each one, rendering, downloading, and repeating. I restart the browser, forget to change the font size, messing up the rest of the run... it would be much easier if I could specify it like height and width within the actual code like every other variable, so that I can look at the GABC in my TXT file and have all the data there.
I will try to add that later this week. I think I added fontsize in a hurry at someone's request, and must have simply forgotten to add a place for it in the header.
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