On Wednesday, 22 April 1998, Jan Arne Fagertun writes:

> > As has already been said, TeX has its pros.  And in my experience, the
> > tex run takes very little time compared to the lilypond run.
> 
> That is my experience, too. TeX takes almost no time to run on my
> Linux PPro 180 MHz, compared to lilypond.

A lot of code is not written to be efficient, so quite some
speed improvements can be made (the junking of libg++ Rational
was quite an improvement accidentally...)
Yesterday i had a quick go at speeding up the matrix stuff, but
i found it needs some thought.

> > Creative makefile rules can be your friend here, too, if you want to
> > avoid _seeing_ that last step.
> 
> Or you could use ly2dvi instead of lilypond && {la,}tex

Which reminds me: i reincluded the ugly los-toros latex frontend,
because ly2dvi seems to eat all letters with accents (\'e).
Any clues?

Jan.

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