Re: GUI for Lilypond

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 13 September 2004 12.32, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Graham Percival wrote:
> > There are also some text editors that are integrated with LilyPond to a
> > less or greater extent -- Emacs, vim, jedit, etc.  See the manual for
> > details about GUIs and text editor stuff.
>
> Not to forget jEdit...
>
> I think it is not reasonable to embed LilyPond's render engine into a
> WYSIYWG system: It takes much too long to produce nice output.

At least with today's state. I have been thinking about this issue - and in 
theory I think it could be possible to some extent; an editor could use a 
primitive engine to do an initial guess of the layout, and internally run 
lilypond now and then to adjust the layout to look better. It's not a pure 
WYSIWYG, but it's a bit closer at least.

This stuff would be far far future though.

Erik