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I’ve distracted long enough to be lost from the lilypond and lilytool world.

Was surfing round the lilypond mailing list web archives I found several updates interesting enough to share.

Bert, the creator of LilyPondTool, created a new webbie for LilypondTool at http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/

Bert now has his own blog over at http://briffid.blogspot.com/

LilyPond 2.10.19 and 2.11.19 are available for download. From what I can see, the installation is much simple on linux than before with its installer script, and I see ample windows builds (Wait till I buy vista before windows again). As usual new features keep coming in.

LilyPondTool 2.10.4 released Seems it has many new features including

LilyPondTool 2.10 demo is released demonstrating some of the most exciting features -instant errorchecking, instant help, instant point-and-click). See more cool demos

There’s this new webpage called A-Play was first seen here then mentioned as a shell for lilypond and discussed more over here Now, I don’t really get the entire idea of how to use it, but I already had the idea of how it should be used before I ever seen of this.

(This paragraph contain random thoughts)
In no way to suggest bad for lilytool in anyway, but I feel the web platform would be the way really for lilypond to reach out to the masses. I mean, what can be harder than opening a web browser compared to installing >10mb of stuff. Normal users would most likely seen a web browser 10x more than file editor, which cuts down lots more learning curve for interface alone. Graphical interface could be easily implemented in html too. Expert users can use a textarea with autosave feature enabled, providing a portability around the world. Syntax highlighting, indentation can be done with a iframe. Shortcuts can be added to keyevents. Snippets can be drag and drop or provided via menu or toolbars. Combined with good server side support to store, render and process, and server/browser communication using AJAX to provide seamless integration between user and machine, it seems only good can come out from this. Well of course this is another of my wild imaginations, although I think its not fairly difficult to implement, not many people who can implement will do it, but perhaps an employee or someone in his 20% time might do it for fun.

Lastly I glad that even LilyPond’s “boss” Hans-Wen has openly supported LilyTool as a “official recommended tool”. Kudos to Bert! Well, as this point of time I can’t wait to open my development tools like Eclipse and start coding goodies for LilyPondTool, but not yet. Got to install a running copy of jEdit with its plugin first. Then settle lots of other stuff I needa do, followed by keep a cool head to not to rush, keep the ideas and program well.

Slow and steady wins the race.