Hi all,
  I'm exploring possibilities for a web-based music creation and
manipulation tool, and considering LilyPond for rendering the music (is
there an alternative? :)). From what I can see in the documentation, it's
designed very much as a command line tool, intended to be driven directly
by users. Whereas I'm looking for a way to embed it in a web application,
and not pay the overhead of loading libraries, parsing and processing
entire scores when only small bits change, etc.

A search of the archives shows that this question comes up periodically in
various forms (a LilyPond server? an API? incremental rendering?), going
back to 2005 - but I haven't stumbled on anything much beyond proof of
concept. There's Wikitex, but MediaWiki isn't much help to me, and the
Wikitex repository and mailing lists (as linked from http://wikitex.org/) seem
to be offline.

The application will probably be based in Django, so Python hooks would be
especially useful. I'd be interested in ways of embedding LilyPond, or
running a server that can maintain a bit of state to provide quick response.

Any suggestions? Thoughts? Places to look? Other people to ask? :)

Thanks in advance,
Steve
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