Urs, this is very interesting. My two thoughts below. 2014-04-04 12:43 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org>: > ### > > The most interesting aspect of the meeting was that Henle's (only) in-house > engraver was present too, and this may become a fruitful contact. He is > using Amadeus, a Linux (!) program he bought for 20.000 Euro in 1988 and > which has been out of development for something like 15 years now.
I think this proves that the industry is generally not impressed with the free/libre concept of software. I know most architect studios use pirated AutoCad even if stability of a bridge or a building depends on it. Maybe education is a bigger "market" for us. > ### > > Another aspect that I found very astonishing is compilation speed. Of course > Amadeus files have to be compiled before the result is visible, and this can > be automatically done upon save. I think Frescobaldi's behaviour with Ctrl-M > and by now the autocompile is an equivalent approach here. But the engraver > claims that recompilation of a 30 page scores needs 2/10 of a second on an > average computer. So this _is_ a fundamental difference, because he _does_ > have practically instant WYSIWYG while still benefitting from text input and > the compiled approach. A strong point of LilyPond is the beauty contest idea of automated engraving. That implies iterating through a tree of possibilities and finding good layouts without human intervention. I don't really know if it is used for everything, but what's clear is that AI takes time. Default scores usually look good, but if LilyPond could switch off most of beauty-related calculations temporarily and cache the rest, it could possibly speed up things. As always, this is easy to say. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
