> On Apr 23, 2018, at 1:13 PM, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > 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
I am seeing these very long launch times with 2.18.2-1 which the thread states is not showing the font cache rebuild problem. I don’t use the development versions as I lack the actual computer skills necessary to deal with any problems that might occur. I can’t even code “Hello, world” in any language. ;-) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user