Re: charge of lilypond

[Graham Percival]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> > The best way to do this, is to write a scheme extension that reads file 
> > names from a socket or a pipe, processes those. Then you can save on the 
> > startup time of LilyPond.
>
> Didn't Graham do something like this, calling it LilyPond server?

Han-Wen created the initial file (about one and a half pages of scheme 
code).  I modified it a little bit, and then I modified it a lot to fit 
my needs.  In particular, I had an OSC server that translated OSC 
messages into lilypond code, compiled it into pngs, then displayed the 
results as HTML pages.  The idea is that I'd have one central computer 
that would generate music (with Computer-Assisted Composition) and send 
it to musicians to sight-read on stage.

Since Sep, I've been tackling the problem of having the computer judge 
the ability of musicians, so I haven't touched firelily (that 
OSC->lily->PNG+HTML program) at all.  I'm planning on rewriting it in 
python (initial version was in perl) and releasing it at some point, but 
my focus right now is the musician evaluation tool.

Cheers,
- Graham