Hi Urs, > Basically I'd be interested in an estimate if there are practical limitations > where one would be better off skipping a commission because LilyPond would be > at its limit.
I have yet to reach that point, and I’ve Lily-pound four stage musicals, a chamber opera, 9-minute works for full orchestra and choir, and so on. That being said, in most of my long works (i.e., musicals and operas), I am fortunate that I can compartmentalize the engraving work into much smaller sections (e.g., movements or even songs). For example, I have a “MyWork_fullscore_single” file, which I use to get each segment nearly to perfection; only once all the segments are nearly perfect on their own do I attempt to combine them all into the “MyWork_fullscore” file and compile the final score all at once. My reaction (based mostly on the excruciating amount of time it took to recompile that 9-minute orchestra and choir work) is that I wouldn’t want to engrave even one act of a full-score unsegmented opera with Lilypond, unless I had a *very* good workflow (e.g., make 100-200 tweaks, press “compile”, go for an hour’s jog). Hope this helps! Kieren. _______________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: <http://www.kierenmacmillan.info> email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
