Hello Ludovic,

You’ll be much better off using Frescobaldi as your LilyPond editor, with many 
tools and facilities as bonus. As the french saying goes : « l’application 
Lilyond a le mérite d’exister… »

JM

> Le 3 févr. 2021 à 15:26, Ludovic Teysseire <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
> 
> 
> Hello David,
> 
> I think you are right and the problem is memory rather than lilypond. It is 
> true that my computer is a dog.
> 
> As it happened, I typed everything in lilypond directly.
> 
> I think I am going to input everything in separate files. 
> 
> Thank you for your help and have a good day. 
> 
> 
> 
> ---- David Wright a écrit ----
> 
> On Wed 03 Feb 2021 at 10:25:59 (+0000), Ludovic Teysseire wrote:
> > 
> > I recently started coding a piano score on Lilypond version 2.20.0 
> > comprised of roughly 250 bars. However, I have been unable to input 
> > anything after a while. It seems that I can change the code however I want 
> > as long as I do no exceed 28,072 characters.
> > 
> > Could you help me find out if there really is a limit on the number of 
> > characters we can input per project ? Otherwise, could you please tell me 
> > how I can input a score without dividing the piece ?
> > 
> > I believe that variables won't help me save more space.
> 
> Which platform and OS are you using? Are you typing your 28,072
> characters into an editor, or directly into LilyPond, or what?
> On the face of it, this does not sound like a limitation in
> LilyPond itself.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.

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