Re: Outputting to stdout

[Curt McDowell]

Another way to hack it on Linux:

> ln -s /dev/stdout my_file.png
> lilypond --png my_file.ly | my_program
> rm my_file.png
>

Regards,
Curt

On 8/21/2020 4:02 PM, David Wright wrote:

> On Fri 21 Aug 2020 at 22:00:54 (+0200), Krystian Chachuła wrote:
> > Is there a way of making lilypond output the generated png to stdout?
> > My intention is to animate a score in a Python script.
> >       
> The shortest way is illustrated at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-05/msg00368.html
> but I haven't tested it. My own method, which uses a named pipe, is
> further up the thread, but as it splits across the months, here's the link:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-04/msg00500.html
>
> Obviously substitute PNG for SVG.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
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