Re: Prefer luatex for documentation

2022-11-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> What I'm now working on are macros for `configure.ac` to find a >> UTF-8 locale, which is important for the documentation generation >> in the long run. [...] > > Phooey, that sounds complicated. I wonder if it would not take just > as much time to reimplement texindex in Perl, as suggested

Re: LilyPond 2.23.82

2022-11-27 Thread Knute Snortum
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 11:13 AM Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion wrote: > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.82. This is the > third release candidate towards the next stable version 2.24.0 expected > in December. Please test your scores with this version and repor

Re: Guile 2 vs. Guile 3

2022-11-27 Thread Eric Benson
The time to initialize LilyPond is roughly 0.1s, so 40s of the 5 minutes time are spent just initializing LilyPond 400 times. Consider passing all the files to 'lilypond' in a single invocation, which should be faster. Yes, I considered doing that. It would

Re: Guile 2 vs. Guile 3

2022-11-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 26/11/2022 à 22:36, Eric Benson a écrit : In anticipation of the impending release of 2.24, I recently ported my Lilypond files from 2.22 to 2.23.81. I have about 100 lead sheets with lyrics, parameterized so that I can easily create them in different keys and in treble clef or bass clef. Ther

Re: Prefer luatex for documentation

2022-11-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 27 nov. 2022 à 19:40, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > What I'm now working on are macros for > `configure.ac` to find a UTF-8 locale, which is important for the > documentation generation in the long run. Alas, it is non-trivial to > write a portable solution, and I wasn't able to find some

LilyPond 2.23.82

2022-11-27 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.82. This is the third release candidate towards the next stable version 2.24.0 expected in December. Please test your scores with this version and report back the experience as well as any problems you encounter. Please refer to the Installing s

Re: Prefer luatex for documentation

2022-11-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> What is the state of this discussion? Werner, what is your opinion > on using LuaTeX exclusively now that this point has been cleared up? For me, this is OK. What I'm now working on are macros for `configure.ac` to find a UTF-8 locale, which is important for the documentation generation in t

Re: Prefer luatex for documentation

2022-11-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 23/11/2022 à 22:52, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : Le 22/11/2022 à 22:57, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : OK, I'll do a one-core test. pdfTeX: real    29m37,883s user    28m28,375s sys    2m9,725s LuaTeX: real    30m42,967s user    29m14,973s sys    2m31,694s This is with a single core, in th

Re: Download links

2022-11-27 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hello, Le 27/11/2022 à 01:30, Paolo Prete a écrit : What seems to me possibly against link stability is that GitLab is a platform focused on the development of a project, and not specifically a repository of releases, although, of course it does include releases of the programs it hosts throug