Re: Bringing LilyPad into LilyPond

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Ed Baskerville wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> > Have a look at Lilypond.app, which registers itself as a handler  for 
> > the textedit:// protocol. You could launch Preview on 10.3, and  use 
> > the same mechanism there.
>
>
> I certainly could. That just precludes the possibility of "almost  live" 
> previewing on 10.3--in LilyPad, you don't actually have to save  or 
> explicitly execute any command to have your preview be up to date.

Yes, I wondered about that. Isn't it possible to make Preview close or 
revert the PDF by sending it the right apple event?

> A question about using textedit:// URLs: is it not conceivable that  you 
> might want to have different handlers for textedit:// links in  
> different kinds of files? E.g., LilyPond or LilyPad for PDFs  generated 
> by LilyPond, and TeXShop for TeX-originating PDFs?
>
> In which case, might it not be better to define a LilyPond-specific  URL 
> scheme, say, lilypond:// ?

I invented the textedit protocol, so I don't think so. And we can fix it 
later, if we like.

> --Ed


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