Re: 3.0?

[Carl Peterson]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

Well,
compiling a few measures of a single staff feels nearly instantaneous, and when you're editing an orchestral score this makes a huge difference.

Generally I'd think it would be a good idea to have such an interface in Frescobaldi. UI-wise it wouldn't be too hard to add that. However, there is one thing I've thought about several times and that doesn't make the issue so easy:
If you have a short segment of a score, say in a variable, how can you guarantee that LilyPond has the right context for that (I'm not talking of \context, but of things like key, time signature, transposition etc.)?

Couple of possibilities. Just thinking about Frescobaldi, since it seems to do a pretty good job of tracing things through the document(s), would it be possible to look for the reference to that variable and try to determine the context?

Another option is that this is not a "compilation" feature (i.e., Fresco is not passing the variable to LP to compile), but rather it would allow a dialog box/popup and there would be the option to change certain things like time signature, transposition, etc.

I actually think it should be some kind of bare-bones parser apart from LP proper (a bypass) that doesn't factor in articulations, manual tweaks, etc., but only considers absolutely essential components (notes, slurs, ties, chords, etc.).

Carl