Steve,
On 28 February 2012 08:08, Steve Bennett <stev...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? :) See thread. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-02/msg00002.html Trevor Dixon has recently written a nice web-based app. -- -- James _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
