Re: faster lilypond rendering

[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 much more time in
> adjusting the tweaks, especially the choice of line breaks, page breaks
> and the locations of rehearsal marks.  This activity has much more
> requirement to actually render the whole document.  And it takes forever
> on my 700Mhz PII!  So, cutting out processing of sections of music is of
> little use.  I'm really looking for faster rendering in general.

Then it could maybe be a good idea to only render one or two pages at a time, 
and skip the rest.

> 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 skips the pdf 
generation phase).

-- 
Erik