Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[Lucas Gonze]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:22 AM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> It is very difficult.  It's better to use a front-end editor that shows some 
> sorta mock-up of the score and that only compiles the nice LilyPond version 
> from time to time (if this exists).  Getting an actual LilyPond score 
> requires calculating line breaks and there's no way to get rid of the 
> overhead.  That said, we optimize all the time: I believe that for larger 
> scores w/ many staves, the current development version is faster than 2.14.
>
> As for the svg, significant improvement can be made in the speed of 
> LilyPond's svg export - contributions are certainly welcome in this area.  
> The backend is very well written but it is all in Scheme and can be quite 
> slow as it does not make reference to an external font file but rather draws 
> out every glyph.

It wouldn't make sense to have completely separate codebases for
quick-and-dirty and slow-and-pretty. IMO this is the blocker.

Lilypond's C could be converted to Javascript using Emscripten. Is
there any hope of that working with the Scheme?