Re: Waltrop meeting outline

[Rodolfo Zitellini]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:48 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

>> I would like to be present all day the 24th, but I am not sure I can
>> make it the 23th. One topic I think would also be nice to touch is
>> promoting LilyPond and how we can valorize all the music that is in
>> Mutopia (I saw, for example, that there are much of Bach's organ
>> works). Also we can continue to discuss on how to speed up compiling
>> music - as this is one of the first things everyone notices ("but it
>> takes 40 minutes to create the book!").
>
> People are spoiled rotten.  I've had moderate success promoting
> text-critical typesetting taking about that amount of time on an average
> computer for a thousand-page book.  The "established" process I had
> problems competing with took about 8 weeks of outsourced manual labor
> (people working with scissor and paper) per iteration.  With
> aesthetically inferior results (admittedly, at the time I did the
> presentation it was more of a toss-up).  What are 40 minutes?
>
well, while I partially concur with you, this is not an argument I can
use with my boss :)

Rodolfo