On Wednesday 15 February 2006 06.28, Richard Schoeller wrote: > I'd like to weigh in on this one. > > My experience is totally contrary to the way this discussion has gone. > The actual entry and correction of the music is a trivial small part of > the time I spend working with Lilypond. I spend much more time in > adjusting the tweaks, especially the choice of line breaks, page breaks > and the locations of rehearsal marks. This activity has much more > requirement to actually render the whole document. And it takes forever > on my 700Mhz PII! So, cutting out processing of sections of music is of > little use. I'm really looking for faster rendering in general.
Then it could maybe be a good idea to only render one or two pages at a time, and skip the rest. > BTW, some watching of the process leads me to think that one of the > biggest performance sinks is conversion to PDF. Sounds very strange. However, if ps->pdf conversion does take forever, then you can always use the --ps switch to lilypond (which skips the pdf generation phase). -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
