Re: feasibilty question: simple GUI for web-based Lilypond instance

[Jahrme Risner]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 13:35, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>   Hi Jonas,
>
> > Proper collaboration tools aren't easy either, but there are solutions
> > like Etherpad. It's open and can be enhanced with plugins, so would a
> > collaborative text editor with a (possibly autorefreshing) preview from
> > LilyPond constitute as a GUI for your scenario?
>
> The app/site *must* allow entry of notes using either a MIDI keyboard or a "Quick Entry" (mouse-click) type UI; drag-and-drop would obviously be a bonus, but is hardly necessary.
>
> > No autocompletion though
>
> Don’t need that. In fact, in a “perfect” world, the students wouldn’t even see the .ly code.  ;)
Depending on the level of concurrency your students need when editing, a relatively low-tech option might be students using Frescobaldi locally on their computers with the LilyPond files saved to a shared destination (e.g., an sftp server or some DropBox-like service) so that students could collaborate. This wouldn’t really work for completely simultaneous editing, but I’ve known colleagues who took a similar approach when collaborating on LaTeX documents and they didn’t have too many problems.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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