*TL;DR:* I already knew and used *ly2video*, but my project focuses on SVG; I’d love some minimal LilyPond support, but so far there’s little interest. ------------------------------
Thank you! I was indeed already aware of the *ly2video* project — I’ve even used it before. However, the entire point of my experiment was precisely to move from PNG to SVG, so in that sense my approach diverges from *ly2video* quite early. That said, your suggestion is very welcome: I hadn’t thought of looking at how *ly2video* handled the issue of synchronization, given that LilyPond outputs very little in that regard. I might dig into that, even if it's just out of curiosity. Unfortunately, *ly2video* hasn’t seen much activity in quite a while — and as with many side projects, that’s often the risk: they may no longer be actively maintained. As for my own scripts, I deliberately kept them specific and non-reusable. They’re not designed to be general-purpose tools, just functional scaffolding to prove a point. What I would truly love, though, would be to see if some minimal, “homeopathic” changes could be introduced into LilyPond’s core — just enough to make projects like this less hacky and more straightforward. In any case, yours is the only response I've received so far, and while I genuinely appreciate it, I wouldn't call it a groundswell of interest. So I’ll probably let the idea rest for now. Thanks again for taking the time to reply — it really does mean something. Christophe On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM Peter Chubb <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> "Christophe" == Christophe Thiebaud <[email protected]> > writes: > > > > Christophe> Animation with SVG ― project, lessons, and a proposal > > Christophe> Would anyone else be interested in this kind of use case? > Christophe> Has something similar been attempted before? If there is > Christophe> sufficient and benevolent feedback from the community, I > Christophe> could ask for help from the developer community to resume > Christophe> the attempt 1 to modify Lilypond. > > You may want to take a look at the ly2video project that started in 2012. > It > uses PNG output not the SVG output though. > > https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video > > > Peter C >
