Lucas Gonze <lucas.go...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:22 AM, m...@apollinemike.com > <m...@apollinemike.com> 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.
It is what LyX does with regard to LaTeX typesetting. The counterthesis, in a way, is TeXmacs, but it does not use TeX for typesetting, it only employs its algorithms. > IMO this is the blocker. It is quite hard to turn a whole program into something matching the requirements of a GUI workflow. The mockup route will certainly deliver results quite faster. It is conceivable to combine it with a lazy update/preview scheme running in the background, but for interactive response you'll want something faster. > Lilypond's C could be converted to Javascript using Emscripten. Is > there any hope of that working with the Scheme? That reminds me of a man bringing a fried chicken to the vet and asking whether there is anything he can do. No, LilyPond C++ is not idiomatic C but a rather low-level intertwinement with Scheme. It is not really susceptible to machine translation by other paths. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
