"Jan Rosseel" <j...@rosseel.com> writes: > It's not on-the-fly, but rather on-demand. > > Given the slowness of Lilypond, even on a fast machine, one has to count > many seconds to render a part of a symphony. 4th part of Sibelius5 for > example takes 20 seconds on a Core i7 for the violin parts. The trombone > part is done before I can type this sentence :-) (Yes, I'm a trombone > player...) > > So it can never be on the fly. Except if we find a good solution for > partial rendering, but even with clever skipTypesetting markers, it's > just too slow for the immediate feedback that one expects from WYSIWYG > programs. Even more so when taking to roundtrip time to the rendering > server and back. > > And no, I'm not rendering PDF. I have my own backend for Lilypond, > largely based on the SVG backend.
How far into Cairo? <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3317> -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
