Sunday, March 7, 2010

Introduction to WebLily.net's editor for LilyPond scores

Scorgle wrote a concise introduction to WebLily.net's editor.

Good work, have fun reading it.

Cheers,

Weblily

WebLily.net now revamped

WebLily.net comes now with new and improved features. It is now seated within a Liferay content management system, you can now upload and download LilyPond scores and many more features.

Take a look at
to find out what's new and how it works.

Enjoy LilyPond on the web!

Cheers,

Weblily

Friday, May 22, 2009

WebLily.net - Now Printing via PDF in Full LilyPond Qualitiy

Now you can print your scores in full LilyPond quality. Use the "Print (PDF)" Button at any time to create a PDF of your score. The PDF will be displayed in the browser by the PDF-Viewer you have installed. Hit the print button of your PDF-Viewer to get an impeccable print out of your score.

Another problem seems to be fixed now: You can now write chords using the notation with "<" and "<" of LilyPond.

Currently, WebLily.net works fine for small (i.e. really very small) examples. However, these known limitations remain:

  • Any LiliPond input larger than really small will send the website to computational nirvana

  • Some graphical objects are still missing without any notice, e.g. beams

  • Depending on your browser non-ASCII characters in texts may show up as "?"

I am working on this and I'd appreciate your feedback. Please, let me know what you think about it. Write a comment to this blog or send me a personal message.


Only recently (why so late?) did I come to know LilyPond, the fantastic music engraving software. Being impressed by its simplicity and its beautyful results and at times overwhelmed by the wealth of its functions and options I came up with the idea of making it available on the web.

This is an experimental project. I am exploring the realm of web programming using Google's Web Toolkit. The output is true HTML so hopefully it will run on any browser. Since I am not an experienced programmer doing this just as a hobby you might know what you'll have to expect.

May be people who are new to LilyPond and just want to play around with it will find this to be a useful tool, since they do not have to download and to install the software on their machines.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

WebLily.net - Running LilyPond on the web

Only recently (why so late?) did I come to know LilyPond, the fantastic music engraving software. Being impressed by its simplicity and its beautyful results and at times overwhelmed by the wealth of its functions and options I came up with the idea of making it available on the web.

This is an experimental project. I am exploring the realm of web programming using Google's Web Toolkit. The output is true HTML so hopefully it will run on any browser. Since I am not an experienced programmer doing this just as a hobby you might know what you'll have to expect.

May be people who are new to LilyPond and just want to play around with it will find this to be a useful tool, since they do not have to download and to install the software on their machines.

Currently, WebLily.net works fine for small (i.e. really very small) examples.

Known limitations:
  • any LiliPond input larger than really small will send the website to computational nirvana
  • some graphical objects are still missing without any warning, e.g. beams
  • the signs "<" and ">" will not be recognized, there still is a problem converting to/from HTML
  • depending on the browser non-ASCII characters in will show up as "?"
  • PDF output is still missing
I am working on this and I'd appreciate your feedback. Please, let me know what you think about it. Write a comment to this blog or send me a personal message.