Re: Towards something like a "helper" to write in Lilypond

[Werner LEMBERG]

> So, I foresee this fictional application as follows. A text editor
> (fulfilled with some Lilypond-command help in the way lilypondtool
> does) which at some moment, by pressing a certain key, shows a
> sketch, an image of the score at the point I'm writing.  This image
> doesn't need to be as perfect as the final output. I don't know how
> much of the processing time of Lilypond could be saved by this, but
> I think this is always preferable to the compile-pdf
> viewer-etc. sequence.  All the same, the final polish will have to
> be made compilling the PDF.

A similar problem exists with TeX.  IIRC, people have developed a
slightly modified DVI format to have a kind of `state snapshots' every
page (or paragraph, I no longer remember).  A daemon then simply
allows display of everything typeset so far, while the user inputs new
data.  Here's a paper:

  www.pytex.org/doc/euro2002.pdf


    Werner