On Monday 22 March 2004 22.41, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > Please entertain a question from a newbie who just joined the list this > morning. I searched the FAQ and this list's archives without being able to > find an answer. > > I'm just getting started with Lilypond, to help engrave traditional music > used by a contra dance band. I've just download and installed Lilypond now, > and have only tried it on one file. While I'm doing this, I wondered why > there isn't a publicly accessible Lilypond server, where users could upload > a file, and Lilypond on the server would process it, and redirect the URL > to, say, a pdf output of the music? Does such a service exist?
Currently, lilypond has too many potential security holes to work well for this purpose. This will probably be fixed within a few months. Quoting the release notes of 2.1.32: > After 2.2 is out, we will start the 2.3 branch directly. In this > branch we will work on direct PostScript output (so we can drop the > silly lilypond.py script), --safe execution (run Lily over the > webserver!) and page layout (get sane page breaks in multi-piece > orchestral parts!). Erik _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
