[Denemo-devel] Re: lilypond-devel Digest, Vol 93, Issue 12

[Richard Shann]

This might be useful for a background updater of the printed page:

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 17:07 -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:04:12 +0100
> From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: keep LilyPond process running in sort of "server mode"
> To: Wilbert Berendsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> 
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:01:06PM +0200, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> > some time ago there has been some discussion about a way to run
> LilyPond
> > once and keep it running, waiting for a filename to compile. I think
> it
> > was a special .ly file containing Scheme code that was started and
> ran all
> > the init stuff, then waited for the name of a .ly file to process
> (via a
> > socket, pipe or stdin, don't remember).
> 
> If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, then
> the lilypond server thread acts as a real server; it accepts
> telnet (or netcat) connections.  Search the archives for "lilypond
> server"; IIRC it was from about 5 years ago.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham