Lilypond -> flash (gnash) animation?

[Mark Van den Borre]

Hi all,

After reading about gnash, a reverse engineered gpl implementation of
the Adobe flash 7 specs, a question keeps popping up.

Could Lilypond help animate a simple snippet of music? Think
start/stop button, and note highlighting that jumps along with the
sound, a bit like a proprietary plugin does for a proprietary music
notation app. The possible music education applications of even the
simplest implementation would be huge...

Is Lilypond potentially intelligent enough to sync played and written
notes for a simple single voice melody?
If so, is it possible to make a guestimate of development work needed
for this? Areas needing improvement? MIDI, certainly, but what else?

I do realise Lilypond itself is probably not the right place to
implement this, but launching the idea can only broaden the horizon,
can't it?

Mark
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