Re: using \include for remote files

[Jonathan Kulp]

Bertalan Fodor wrote:
> Yes, using guile you can download the file to /tmp for example and then include that. 
> Like this:
>
> #(remote-include "http://www.whatnote.com/style.ly"; "/tmp/whatnote-style.ly")
> \include "/tmp/whatnote-style.ly"
>
> For implementing remote-include a call to wget could be enough:
>
> #(define remote-include (lambda (remote-file local-file)
> (system* "wget" remote-file local-file)
> )))
>
> Perhaps wget needs other parametrization.
>
> Bert
>
>
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > From: "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden>
> > To: "Jonathan Kulp" <address@hidden>
> > Sent: 09/01/02/, 23:25:39
> > Subject: Re: using \include for remote files
> >
> > 2009/1/2 Jonathan Kulp <address@hidden>:
> > > It occurred to me today that it would be nice if Lilypond could use \include
> > > to include files that are hosted on a website, the way html pages use
> > > stylesheets.  Something like this:
> > >
> > > \include "http://www.websiteaddress.com/definitions.ly";
> > As far as I know, a web browser actually needs to download the
> > stylesheet before using it. So this would require to implement network
> > transaction capabilities into LilyPond, which does not seem very
> > useful at this point :-)
> >
> > (that being said, it should be easy to use a Python script or even a
> > Guile module to retrieve the files).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Valentin

Thanks for the responses.  "Pie-in-the-sky" is probably an accurate 
description, but I thought I'd ask anyway, in the spirit of "wouldn't it 
be cool if..."

That said, I'll definitely try the suggestions you've given me, just for 
the fun of it.  I don't mind using included local files and of course I 
do it in many of my scores.  Where I thought this feature might help is 
in sharing files with other users.  It's easy to get used to having lots 
of customized definitions in included files and to forget to send the 
definitions along when sharing a file with someone else.

Thanks for the suggestions I'll give it a try. :)

Jon
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