Thank you everyone, all those solutions are really promising. I hadn't tried the features of canvas, so I will try that first; I'm really glad to learn about Inscore, which I'd not heard of before and which seems really interesting for a lot of my projects; the node.js also offers some appreciable advantages for this particular project, so I will check that out too.

Many thanks, everyone. Much appreciated!

- martin


On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 16:09, Joseph Larralde <joseph.larralde@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Martin,

As Maximiliano suggests, Inscore, which I tried a bit in the past, is a
good solution that will even allow you to generate (not too complex)
scores on-the-fly.

Personnally I would go for the following scenario : Pd talking to a
Node.js application via OSC (UDP), and the Node application serving
various web pages that could be updated by websockets from Node. Each
interpret would have his own web page, visible from any kind of device.
I've used IRCAM's soundworks framework (based on Node.js and express) to
achieve similar setups successfully, but you might not need all its
complexity and would probably prefer to write your own program from scratch.
The cool thing is that you have the osc.js library for node which is
quite easy to use and abstracts the websocket layer.
The bad thing is that you need to be familiar with all those web
technologies, so my answer might not help a lot depending on your skills.

Joseph


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> I need to be able to display musical performance instructions to several
> performers at once (each with their own laptop, say) in an easy to deploy
> and reasonably robust way. Text only, or static images only, or both would
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> Any suggestions that do not involve Gem?
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> Hello Martin,
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> Did you see the help about canvas ?
> Insie, there is methods to change text and move this canvas in the patch
> : "pos" and "label".
> ++
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> Jack
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> Le 01/02/2019 à 15:05, Martin Dupras a écrit :
>> I'll be brief.
>>
>> I need to be able to display musical performance instructions to several
>> performers at once (each with their own laptop, say) in an easy to
>> deploy and reasonably robust way. Text only, or static images only, or
>> both would be acceptable. It would be bonus to be able to move the text
>> around the screen, too.
>>
>> Any suggestions that do not involve Gem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - martin
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> Use can use a canvas. It is customizable. You can check [easyflow/printHere] for an example of dealing with multiline text and how to display the sharp character instead of #.
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> I'll be brief.
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> I need to be able to display musical performance instructions to several performers at once (each with their own laptop, say) in an easy to deploy and reasonably robust way. Text only, or static images only, or both would be acceptable. It would be bonus to be able to move the text around the screen, too.
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> if you are open to solutions involving other software, I can recommend you
> inscore http://inscore.sourceforge.net/. You can control it over osc.
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> El vie., 1 feb. 2019 a las 15:41, Henri Augusto Bisognini (<
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>> Use can use a canvas. It is customizable. You can check
>> [easyflow/printHere] for an example of dealing with multiline text and how
>> to display the sharp character instead of #.
>>
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>> *De:* Pd-list <pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at> em nome de Martin Dupras <
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>> *Assunto:* [PD] Displaying text
>>
>> I'll be brief.
>>
>> I need to be able to display musical performance instructions to several
>> performers at once (each with their own laptop, say) in an easy to deploy
>> and reasonably robust way. Text only, or static images only, or both would
>> be acceptable. It would be bonus to be able to move the text around the
>> screen, too.
>>
>> Any suggestions that do not involve Gem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - martin
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