Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-16 Thread Dunstan Vavasour
I've found that if you put: #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f) at the top of the file, it will render OK in GSView, so I guess that area is the first place to look for the offending postscript. Dunstan On 16/02/06, Eduardo Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mats wrote: > Unfortunately, that'

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-16 Thread Eduardo Vieira
Mats wrote: Unfortunately, that's not true on Windows, where it seems that GSView is unable to handle Postscript files from LilyPond, no matter what ghostscript version you use. See the mailing list archives for more information. I use GSView in Windows and it does display the ps from Lilypond, ye

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Schoeller
Josiah, You got to this response before I could. If the problem is swap thrashing, then having 8x the memory to handle a score that is 3x the pages should be plenty. I had already disabled point-and-click. It helped. The idea of using the PS output for proofing and going to PDF only when I hav

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > >> 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 forev

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I produce a 70 pages conductor's score in less than half an hour (and this is a *very* conservative estimate) on a two years old PC. True, it has 2GB of memory, but other than that, it is to be considered a fairly old beast by today's standards. ... And it takes forever on my 700Mhz PII! So,

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Quoting Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... 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

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Erik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... 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 s

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Darius Blasband
Hello Richard, As a different data point you can compare to to explain the kind of performance (or lack thereof) you get: I produce a 70 pages conductor's score in less than half an hour (and this is a *very* conservative estimate) on a two years old PC. True, it has 2GB of memory, but other t

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-15 Thread Erik Sandberg
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 m

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-14 Thread Richard Schoeller
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 br

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-14 Thread Ben Fisher
Thanks for the suggestions.   Skipping corrected music looks like the most helpful option. It is a cool and useful idea to skip music. (altough the way to do seems a little awkward.)   -Ben ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://li

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-14 Thread Ramana Kumar
> Have you tried the technique in the docs at > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/lilypond/Skipping-corrected-music.html ah fantastic - that is almost what i had in mind with caching.. it doesn't create a whole document at the end, using the previous data, but it's still good for qui

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Feb-06, at 12:30 PM, Ben Fisher wrote: Running lilypond seems to take a while on my machine. For a project I'm working on it'd be nice to have much faster time to output. Maybe some of this time is spent for lilypond to load all of its fonts and set up. I'm working on using lilypond to

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-13 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Ramana Kumar wrote: > what about caching the lilypond output in such a way that small > changes to the ly code don't result in redoing all the parsing > again... i mean say if someone only adds a bar to the end maybe some > of the work wouldn't need to be redone? > i understand lilypond does some w

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-13 Thread Ramana Kumar
what about caching the lilypond output in such a way that small changes to the ly code don't result in redoing all the parsing again... i mean say if someone only adds a bar to the end maybe some of the work wouldn't need to be redone? i understand lilypond does some work on the whole score which n

Re: faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
Citerar Ben Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Running lilypond seems to take a while on my machine. For a project I'm > working on it'd be nice to have much faster time to output. Maybe some of > this time is spent for lilypond to load all of its fonts and set up. > > Instead of running lilypond.exe

faster lilypond rendering

2006-02-13 Thread Ben Fisher
Running lilypond seems to take a while on my machine. For a project I'm working on it'd be nice to have much faster time to output. Maybe some of this time is spent for lilypond to load all of its fonts and set up.   Instead of running lilypond.exe several times, is there a way to start lilypond so