Re: APIs, hooks, servers and realtime integration

[James]

Steve,


On 28 February 2012 08:08, Steve Bennett <address@hidden> 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.


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James