RE: tablet

[Jan Rosseel]

It's not on-the-fly, but rather on-demand.

Given the slowness of Lilypond, even on a fast machine, one has to count
many seconds to render a part of a symphony. 4th part of Sibelius5 for
example takes 20 seconds on a Core i7 for the violin parts. The trombone
part is done before I can type this sentence :-)  (Yes, I'm a trombone
player...)

So it can never be on the fly. Except if we find a good solution for
partial rendering, but even with clever skipTypesetting markers, it's
just too slow for the immediate feedback that one expects from WYSIWYG
programs. Even more so when taking to roundtrip time to the rendering
server and back.

And no, I'm not rendering PDF. I have my own backend for Lilypond,
largely based on the SVG backend. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Anderson [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: donderdag 1 augustus 2013 8:40
To: Jan Rosseel
Cc: lilypond-user
Subject: Re: tablet

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Jan Rosseel <address@hidden> wrote:
> www.scora.net is absolutely on track.
>
> It's Lilypond based, but Lilypond does not run on the tablet. One 
> can't change the score on the tablet, but one can annotate or create 
> his own personal score (cue notes, key, clefs, ...) It's more limited 
> than an editor, but usable by people that have never heard of 
> Lilypond. Scores have to be structured in a certain way to make this
work.
>
> Scora allows syncing of the tablets in an orchestra through the master

> console of the conductor. Visit www.lao.be to see where and when you 
> can first see this in action.

Interesting. Are you rendering with lilypond on the fly? Or are you
rendering a pdf that was previously generated by lilypond?

-----Jay