Re: Newbie Q: Public access Lilypond server?

[Erik Sandberg]

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