Hello Jay,
Thanks for the tip, I tried it and it works wonders! Truly excellent, will
save me enormous amounts of time :)
Lunch on me if you come to NYC!
Best,
Erik
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Jay Anderson <horndud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Erik Linde <e...@notezilla.io> wrote:
> > Typically the way we have been generating the images of the sheet music
> that
> > we use on the website, is by setting some of the layout attributes to
> really
> > large values, for example:
> >
> > ragged-last = ##t
> > paper-width = 2400.0\cm
> > paper-height = 50.0\cm
> >
> > or perhaps
> >
> > #(set! paper-alist (cons '("my size" . (cons (* 2000 in) (* 50 in)))
> > paper-alist))
> > #(set-default-paper-size "my size")
> >
> > And then generating a pdf, which we then convert to images.
> >
> > This works very well when generating a simple piece, such as a piano
> piece,
> > but whenever there are multiple instruments, and when the piece is very
> > long, such as is the case for most symphonies (which happen to be the
> most
> > popular pieces on Notezilla), the time required to typeset a file seems
> to
> > increase exponentially with the complexity of the music.
> >
> > For a symphony, it could easily go from a few minutes, when using a
> default
> > layout, such as A4 or letter, to upwards of 10 hours, when using a custom
> > paper format that is extremely wide, for example a 500cm or 1000cm in
> width.
> > Please feel free to use this link to download the example that
> illustrates
> > this - Beethoven's 3rd Symphony Mvt. 1. If I try running "lilypond
> > ScoreMvtI.ly" in this example in a default layout, it takes maybe 10-15
> > minutes or so to typeset. If I uncomment row 27 and 28 (which is where I
> > specify the *huge* paper size), it takes maybe 10 hours...
> >
> > I am wondering if someone on this mailing list knows of any work-arounds
> or
> > tricks that I could employ here to shorten the this time? The only
> > requirements for us is that, in the end, that we get one long horizontal
> > score, where the vertical spacing between the staffs is identical
> throughout
> > the piece. Whatever method we can use to get there would be great to hear
> > about! Maybe one way could be to split up the score into just 3-4 rows
> > instead, and then merge these in Photoshop - my concern with that method
> > would be that the vertical distances between staffs would probably not be
> > identical, which would mean that the horizontal score simply would not
> > work...
>
> Try this:
>
> \paper {
> page-breaking = #ly:one-line-breaking
> }
>
> This should make the compilation much quicker. Also "\override
> Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##f" may be
> useful.
>
> -----Jay
>
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