Re: Any way to use lilypond as a library? (embeded)

2010-04-07 Thread Florin Mihaila
On Apr 7, 2010, at 7:50 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > 2010/4/7 Alejandro Piñeiro : >> I would to ask if there are any way to use parts of lilypond as a library of >> a >> different application (use lilypond embeded). > > No. Not the way you're imagining it, at least. > >> Why I ask that? > >

Re: Any way to use lilypond as a library? (embeded)

2010-04-07 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Why I ask that? I'm creating a little application and I would like to create simple midi files on the fly, but I would like to avoid to enter in midi internals (avoid to waste my time reinventing the wheel). And lilypond file format is really easy to use. So my idea is: * My program creates

Re: Any way to use lilypond as a library? (embeded)

2010-04-07 Thread Boris Shingarov
Hi Alejandro,   For what you are doing, you probably want to use libmidi; lilypond is more like if your program created a tune and needed to render the score on paper or on the screen.  If your program is in C , you can use libmidi directly.  If it is in another language, there are many wrappers

Re: Any way to use lilypond as a library? (embeded)

2010-04-07 Thread Graham Percival
2010/4/7 Alejandro Piñeiro : > I would to ask if there are any way to use parts of lilypond as a library of a > different application (use lilypond embeded). No. Not the way you're imagining it, at least. > Why I ask that? Because nobody coded it. Are _you_ volunteering to spend 50 hours worki

Any way to use lilypond as a library? (embeded)

2010-04-07 Thread Alejandro Piñeiro
I would to ask if there are any way to use parts of lilypond as a library of a different application (use lilypond embeded). Right now I'm using Ubuntu, and there are only available lilypond, lilypond-data or lilypond-doc packages. There isn't anything similar to lilypond-dev As far as I see lily