On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:48 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >> I would like to be present all day the 24th, but I am not sure I can >> make it the 23th. One topic I think would also be nice to touch is >> promoting LilyPond and how we can valorize all the music that is in >> Mutopia (I saw, for example, that there are much of Bach's organ >> works). Also we can continue to discuss on how to speed up compiling >> music - as this is one of the first things everyone notices ("but it >> takes 40 minutes to create the book!"). > > People are spoiled rotten. I've had moderate success promoting > text-critical typesetting taking about that amount of time on an average > computer for a thousand-page book. The "established" process I had > problems competing with took about 8 weeks of outsourced manual labor > (people working with scissor and paper) per iteration. With > aesthetically inferior results (admittedly, at the time I did the > presentation it was more of a toss-up). What are 40 minutes? > well, while I partially concur with you, this is not an argument I can use with my boss :)
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