Re: faster compilation (was: Technical question)

[Simon Albrecht]

On 08.04.2016 02:44, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote:
> So, the approach is to segment your piece using \tag and then work on 
> it one segment at a time.  (Of course, depending on what types of 
> issues you are working on like page breaks or line breaks,  you may 
> need to compile the preceding or following segment.)

Three ideas on that:
First, you’ll run into problems as soon as spanners cross segments.
Second, you can have it much easier by enveloping the entire music 
expression in the \score with \tag SegmentA.SegmentB.SegmentC, instead 
of doing it separately for each staff.
Third, you can make much use of LilyPond-only syntax, where you 
currently use Guile. So instead of
\tag #'SegmentA    or    \tag #'(SegmentA SegmentB)
you can just write
\tag Segment A    or    \tag SegmentA.SegmentB

The very most recent development version even allows using a comma 
instead of a dot in list syntax.

Best, Simon