On Mon 23 Apr 2018 at 11:40:46 (-0400), Arle Lommel wrote: > I’ve noticed on the Mac for some time that the first time I invoke Lilypond > from an external application after a reboot, it can take quite a while for it > to respond. Normally this is something like a 40–60 second delay, after which > Lilypond behaves normally. But a few days ago, after I updated to OS X > 10.13.4, it seemed that Lilypond was totally unresponsive over much longer > periods. After waiting about ten minutes, I finally walked away for dinner, > and when I came back, it was working normally. This happened with the latest > development build, but I’ve also had delays with the stable build (although > never as long as this was). > > I was invoking Lilypond through Frescobaldi, but I’ve had the same (shorter) > initial delays on JEdit, and on multiple machines in the past. > > During this longer wait, I could launch Lilypond.app and initiate a > typesetting activity from within it with no problem, so it is not Lilypond > itself that seems to be the problem, but rather something specific to > external applications calling it. > > Is this a known issue? If so, any ideas on ways to fix it other than > typesetting something and walking away for 20 minutes before it responds?
Maybe you've hit this one which used to be a frequent problem here. The cure is usually either a newer version, or you could try deleting the font cache and hoping it will get rebuilt correctly (if there was a problem before) on the next run. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-03/msg00066.html Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
