Carnot is an easy to use Javascript library for typesetting Carnatic music notation within web pages.
Carnot can be used in conjunction with Markdown for typesetting entire documents. The prototype live Carnot editor can be used to typeset notation and print right from within your browser.
Status: ALPHA. Syntax and API are subject to change without notice.
Supported browsers: Chrome, Safari and Firefox.
Usage
Include the script directly from the library URL like this -
<script src="http://sriku.org/lib/carnot/carnot.min.js"> </script>
It doesn't matter where within the page you include it.
The script will search your page for pre tags with the class carnot_section
and render them using SVG.
You can see a rendering of the below example here. Ganarajena Rakshitoham is a larger example of using Carnot within a blog post to display the prescriptive and descriptive notation of a whole composition.
tala pattern = || ,, ,, ,, | ,, ,, | ,, ,, ||
aksharas per line = 14
stretch = 0.6
, , G m , P , m , G , , m G
_ _ ka na _ ka _ sa _ bē _ _ śan _
_ _ க ன _ க _ ச _ பே _ _ சன் _
R S , , S , , S , S , , N- ,
_ da _ _ ri _ _ sa _ nam _ _ kaṇ _
_ த _ _ ரி _ _ ச _ னம் _ _ கண் _
S , , , , , R , , , G , m ,
ḍen _ _ _ _ _ kaṇ _ _ _ ḍu _ aa _
டேன் _ _ _ _ _ கண் _ _ _ டு _ ஆ _
, , P , , , P , m , , P , m
_ _ nan _ _ _ dam _ koṇ _ _ ḍen _ til
_ _ னந் _ _ _ தம் _ கொண் _ _ டேன் _ தில்
aksharas = 2
G R
_ lai
_ லை
If you're using Markdown, including a section to be typeset by
Carnot is a breeze. Any Markdown code block that begins
with tala pattern = ...blah-blah... will be considered as
a Carnot section and typeset accordingly.
Examples - Traditional Carnatic exercises
Syntax
A "carnot_section" is wrapped in a pre tag whose class is set to carnot_section. The body of the pre gives the notation in plain text with the syntax described below.
The notation is considered in "paragraphs" where all lines of a paragraph are expected to be of the same symbolic duration.
"Lines" may be of the following types -
-
Text lines which begin with the ">" character. These are rendered as plain text without any timing. This is useful for stuff like
> (Repeat this twice). -
"Svarasthana" lines, which given the solfege notation with timing. These lines may only use one of the "svarasthana" symbols "SrRgGmMPdDnN". Additionally, "," can be used to indicate a visible time gap and "_" can be used to indicate an invisible gap. Upper and lower octave svarasthana symbols can be obtained by just suffixing the svarasthana letter with "+" or "-" without intervening spaces. Spaces must separate svara and gap symbols and no other types of symbols must be present for a line to be considered as "svarasthana notation".
Ex:
S+ N , d , S+ , N d , P , P , -
"Lyrics" lines, which need to presented as timed syllables. The syntax is pretty much the same as for the svarasthana lines, except that the text is presented in words instead of letters. The textual content can be in any language.
Ex:
mā _ yā _ tī _ ta _ sva rū _ pi ṇi _ _ _ -
"Property" lines, which are of the form
some key = some value. These control the interpretation of the other line types during rendering. If a paragraph consists entirely of property lines, then the properties are considered to be applicable to all the following paragraphs. Properties specified within paragraphs with at least one other line type are considered to apply only to that paragraph.Ex:
aksharas per line = 6
Properties
tala pattern
A tala pattern specification consists of a sequence of "|", "," and space
characters. While a "," counts aksharas of a tala, "|" marks major angas. "|"
indicators are rendered by drawing vertical lines. Space is significant and can
be used to visually group sub-akshara notes as in the sample.
However, multiple spaces are collapsed into a single space. Furthermore, "|" is
rendered as a single vertical line and "||" is rendered as a double vertical
line, but all others such as "||||" will be rendered just like "||".
The "_" character is also permitted and behaves exactly like "|" except that it doesn't cause a line to be drawn. This is useful to align aksharas of long talas whose avrtams get split into multiple lines.
There is no restriction on the types of talas you can encode using this scheme, meaning you aren't limited to the 35 talas, or whatever.
Example:
tala pattern = || , , , , | , , | , , ||tala pattern = || ,, ,, ,, | ,, ,, | ,, ,, ||
aksharas per line
The value of this property is expected to be a natural number greater than 0. It specifies how many of the tala aksharas a line should occupy.
phrases
If a property with the key phrases is attached to a "paragraph", it is
taken to provide information about how to group svaras for that paragraph
into phrases. The syntax of the value is simple - it consists of a sequence
of _ characters some of which are grouped using ( and ) to indicate
that they belong to a phrase. For this property, spaces don't matter at all.
Here is an example (rendered)-
tala pattern = || , , | , , , , ||
aksharas per line = 7
stretch = 1.5
stretch space = 0.5
SrGm GrrG mPmG GmPd PmNd S+NG+r+ S+
phrases = (______) (______) (______) (__) (__) (__) _____
stretch
Give a floating point value that will horizontally stretch the spacing used in the rendering. A value of "2.0" will be twice as wide as a value of "1.0".
Style controls
If you place a pre section with class carnot_style, then the properties
specified in that section are loaded into a style object that is passed to the
renderer. If this section is absent, then default styling applies.
The following parameters are available for customization and are given below along with their default values.
<pre class="carnot_style">
line spacing = 22
para spacing = 22
notation font size = 13
notation small font size = 11
notation font = serif
text font = serif
stretch = 1.0
stretch space = 1.0
margin top = 22
margin left = 10
line extension top = 0
line extension bottom = 5
</pre>