On Sunday 12 December 2004 06.18, Aaron wrote: > Hi I havent upgraded lilypond in a while but am thinking of it. > > I noticed a few things that piqued my curiosity and was wondering: > > What is the gnome backend and what is it used for? > > version 2.5.1 mentions our graphical layout editor, what is this? > > What is the svg backend?
This is (right now) a highly experimental and not yet useful feature for post-processing lilypond output in a WYSIWYG manner (instead of manually offsetting X and Y positions, you can drag and drop the objects). One of the main goals for v3.0 (if I understood it correctly) is to make this fairly usable, and also to use this system to replace the point-and-click feature of xdvi. In the long run, the gnome output mode could make many interesting new features possible. See Han-Wen's post "battle-plan for 2.5 development" on lilypond-devel for ideas. Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
