Re: Lilypond performance

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 5 August 2010 14:26, ornello <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> In my installation, Lilypond runtime seems to increase exponentially
> (at least not linearly) with the number of pages to engrave.
> Is there any option to speed up Lilypond, e.g. by removing time-
> consuming engravers, such that the performance only increases (almost)
> linearly with the number of pages?
>
> I know about the skipTypesetting and showLastLength options, but I
> want to engrave the entire piece, no matter if the typesetting quality
> was slightly impaired.

Hi!

Have you tried  ly:minimal-breaking ?

  \paper {
    #(define page-breaking ly:minimal-breaking)
  }

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/minimal-page-breaking

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>