You should look into include files if you've got that much code. Lilipond can handle it, and it'll make your project much more managable.
On Tue, May 2, 2023, 8:58 AM Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@mailbox.org> wrote: > The work is about 40,000 lines of lilypond code, but split into about ten > sections. There are only about 30 include files. Frescobaldi is unusable, > then and still now. Of the order of 30 seconds to do any operation, on a > linux VM on a very fast computer. I will say that the score is a work of > the New Complexity School by my colleague and the music is pretty dense, > and I think this may have something to do with it (altho as I write that it > sounds stupid). > > I'm sorry to say this is why I had to move over to Dorico. But I need to > complete this work in Lilypond and hence I am back to looking for a good > working environment again. > > Andrew > > > On 2/05/2023 8:37 pm, Federico Bruni wrote: > > This is: > https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/473 > > ... > > I don't have a large score to do a test. > >
