Re: winxp - delay and filenames

[Frédéric Bron]

> 1.  Even with a very small input file, I find a delay of 4-5 seconds 
> after  invoking lilypond before I see anything happening.  Is this 
> normal, or am I doing something wrong?  It's the same whether I type 
> "lilypond filename" in a console window, or invoke lilypond through an 
> editor interface.  I've used Latex a lot, which seems to work much 
> faster - but then music processing is more complicated than text.

It is strange because I had exaclty the same problem but I have just 
installed 2.8.5 to check and now it is much quicker: 1.6 seconds 
(Pentium M, 1.86 GHz) for the following very small example: { c d e f g 
a b }
I am using 2.8.5 with Windows XP and I call the windows version of 
Lilypond from Cygwin (not using the cygwin version). However, when I try 
it from DOS, it takes exactly the same time but the behaviour is 
different: the program stops immediately and later, a black windows pops 
up very quickly.

> 2.  It seems that lilypond can read files with long names, but it writes
> .ps and .pdf files in 8+4 format.  So if I use a filename with more than 
> 8 characters, the output files have apparently different names.  Is 
> there any way to get it to output .ps files with the same name as the 
> input file?

Never experienced such a problem. I have tried both from Cygwin and from 
DOS: it works,

F. Bron