LilyPond API question

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I am working on a Gtk-- notation application (well, still at the 
> concepts though) and I'd like to use LilyPond for basic printouts and 
> most of the syntax/structure of files. Does LilyPond already offer any 
> realtime drawing functions for the score on a eg. gtk drawing surface or 
> am I forced to write the whole workspace's note engraver engine on my own?

We have highly experimental code that draws notation on a GTK canvas,
if you're interested in trying it out, check out the
buildscripts/guile-gnome.sh script, which fetches all the libraries
required for that. Then, running

         lilypond-bin -f gnome <file.ly>

will put a GTK canvas with notation on the screen.


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