Re: jpedal slowness

[Martin Tarenskeen]

Hi Lilypond, Abcm2ps, Mup users,

I'm attaching the shell script I was talking about. It works for 
Lilypond files, but also for ABC and MUP music score source files.
Before using take a look inside the script with your editor and 
change the settings to match your needs.

Comments and bugfixes are welcome !

-- 

Martin Tarenskeen


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:33:30PM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:

> I'm using a little home-brewed script that does the following things 
> automatically:
> 
> 1. If I start the script with a lilypond file as argument, lilypond 
> processes the file with --ps option (postscript only). No time is 
> waisted to convert the ps to pdf. 
> 
> 2. Two windows are opened: One window with gv shows the postscript 
> picture, one xterm window running vim to edit the lilypond source. Both 
> windows are automatically placed and correctly dimensioned to fit next 
> to each other on my screen. gv is called with the "-watch" option and 
> automatically sets the zoom to 50% ( -scale=-2 ) to show more of my 
> page.
> 
> 3. If I edit the source, everytime I save this is detected by an endless 
> loop in my script, lilypond is called and a new postscript is created. 
> This is detected by gv thanks to the -watch option. Et voila, the score 
> can be seen almost instantaneously!
> 
> 4. And all this can be done without ever touching the 
> mouse :-)
> 
> I did take a short look at kdelily (or was it lilykde ?) and 
> jedit/lilypondtool. I was impressed at first sight, but in the end I 
> liked my own fast and lightweight approach better.
> 
> If anyone is interested I can make it publically available. But I have 
> to polish it a little bit first to make it more configurable to 
> different needs (screensizes, file locations, etc.)

medit.sh
Description: Bourne shell script