Re: what is the gnome backend and other questions

[Erik Sandberg]

On Sunday 12 December 2004 06.18, Aaron wrote:
> Hi I havent upgraded lilypond in a while but am thinking of it.
>
> I noticed a few things that piqued my curiosity and was wondering:
>
> What is the gnome backend and what is it used for?
>
> version 2.5.1 mentions our graphical layout editor, what is this?
>
> What is the svg backend?

This is (right now) a highly experimental and not yet useful feature for 
post-processing lilypond output in a WYSIWYG manner (instead of manually 
offsetting X and Y positions, you can drag and drop the objects). One of the 
main goals for v3.0 (if I understood it correctly) is to make this fairly 
usable, and also to use this system to replace the point-and-click feature of 
xdvi.

In the long run, the gnome output mode could make many interesting new 
features possible. See Han-Wen's post "battle-plan for 2.5 development" on 
lilypond-devel for ideas.

Erik