Re: lilypond, guile, qt integration

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

writing a backend is a lot of work, and quite hairy because there
needs to various GUILE bindings for the libraries you use.  It's also
highly undocumented. I recommend looking for a component based PDF
viewer for KDE/Qt, so you can embed a PDF viewer in canorus.

2008/1/27, Matevž Jekovec <address@hidden>:
> The last time I checked LilyPond supported guile as a gtk frontend (a
> simple canvas actually) where Lilypond rendered its work. I don't know
> if I completely understood the concept now, but I'm looking for a Qt4
> widget which LilyPond renders to. What I would like is to create a print
> preview option in Canorus which exports notes to Lily fileformat and
> runs it.
>
> My current plan is to export the notes, run Lily and launch an external
> PDF viewer to show the preview and/or print it. This brings lots of
> problems beside (PDF viewer is external, what if user doesn't have any,
> application is cross-platform etc.).

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