On 4/27/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frankly, I'm a bit mystified why you're spending so much time on building the ultimate postscript backend. The backend is not a performance bottleneck. If you think the current PS code is inefficient, then you should have a look at the rest of LilyPond.
Could you suggest something else to work on that would be reasonably easy to understand?
Yes, but to me this seems hardly related to music typesetting. I think it would be in better style to look for a standardized PDF/PS output library and offload all of the PS/PDF generation to there. Dealing with PS and PDF is a huge sink of developer time, since it tends to turn up all kinds of bugs and compatibility problems in PostScript/GhostScript/acrobat/etc. It would be a good thing if we could outsource that effort to another project.
There's pslib.sourceforge.net. Not sure that it's any easier than doing it ourselves. If you help me refactor the backend as we discussed a few weeks ago, I'd be glad to take responsibility for the postscript backend. David _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
