2011/10/20 Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl>: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Francisco Vila wrote: >> 2011/10/19 <musicar...@pop.com.br>: >>> I were wondering if there is someway to fill the code and at same time >>> generating the score for me to see what I am writting? >> When I am typing music with Frescobaldi, I usually type a measure at a >> time and press CTLR-M immediately, then I continue typing without >> waiting for LilyPond to finish. >> Sure, that puts the CPU in heavy load, but only for the period I am >> transcribing intensively.
> I have tried different text-to-score music typesetting systems (mup, > abcm2ps, pmw, and lilypond). Lilypond has become my first choice because of > flexibility and quality of output. But compared to the other ones, speed is > not it's strongest point. It is I think the flexibility (=complexity) in > combination with the Scheme interpreted language that makes it slow. The > competitors I mention are all 100% hardcoded compiled C programs. Lilypond > is "easier" to tweak by the end-user thanks to the Scheme language. > > The trick musicar...@pop.com.br is asking for is possible with for example > EasyABC, using abcm2ps, and it works pretty good for small to medium sized > scores. > > But to end positively: today's fast computers make it already much easier to > live with Lilypond's slowness. I think that LilyPond is not especially slow considering what it does: it does not limit itself to stroke your commands on a paper. It performs a beauty contest in search of optimal layouts given a bunch of typesetting rules and restraints. That way you can firstly concentrate on music until you decide that you want this or that forced layout. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
