Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Lucas Gonze <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> More generally than that, I think the reason to discuss is to _discover_ the
>> areas where you can cooperate.  There are obvious areas of interaction --
>> e.g. enabling Lilypond output for MuseScore and ensuring that it gets
>> updated effectively in response to Lilypond syntax changes.
>
> I have considered using Lilypond as a back end for front end hacking,
> but the compile time from .ly to .svg is way too high.
>
> Is it architecturally possible to make a significant amount of
> overhead go away? Are incremental compiles plausible?

Architecturally it is very difficult. Rather than making lilypond much
more complicated to do incremental rendering, why not invert the
problem: have your editor control line breaks, and use lilypond to
render just one line of music at a time.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen