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Re: tablet
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David Kastrup |
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Re: tablet |
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Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:54:02 +0200 |
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"Jan Rosseel" <address@hidden> writes:
> It's not on-the-fly, but rather on-demand.
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> 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...)
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> 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.
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> And no, I'm not rendering PDF. I have my own backend for Lilypond,
> largely based on the SVG backend.
How far into Cairo?
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3317>
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David Kastrup