<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Rustom Mody <<a href="mailto:rustompmody@gmail.com">rustompmody@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Here is an example (not identical but analogous to) where markup+compile is<br>
> distinctly weaker than wysiwyg:<br>><br>> You can use lilypond to type music and the use a midi player to play it<br>> But lilypond does not allow playing and seeing-in-realtime<br>><br>> WYSIWYG editors allow that -- can make a huge difference to beginners<br>
> who find music hard to read.<br><br><div>I don't know how fast lilypond is, but perhaps one could write an editor that wraps lilypond and invokes it in realtime to show the output in an adjacent panel, perhaps with a brief delay when the user stops typing.<br>
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