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Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down
From: |
Lucas Gonze |
Subject: |
Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Aug 2012 09:38:36 -0700 |
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:22 AM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> It is very difficult. It's better to use a front-end editor that shows some
> sorta mock-up of the score and that only compiles the nice LilyPond version
> from time to time (if this exists). Getting an actual LilyPond score
> requires calculating line breaks and there's no way to get rid of the
> overhead. That said, we optimize all the time: I believe that for larger
> scores w/ many staves, the current development version is faster than 2.14.
>
> As for the svg, significant improvement can be made in the speed of
> LilyPond's svg export - contributions are certainly welcome in this area.
> The backend is very well written but it is all in Scheme and can be quite
> slow as it does not make reference to an external font file but rather draws
> out every glyph.
It wouldn't make sense to have completely separate codebases for
quick-and-dirty and slow-and-pretty. IMO this is the blocker.
Lilypond's C could be converted to Javascript using Emscripten. Is
there any hope of that working with the Scheme?
- Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, address@hidden, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Graham Percival, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, address@hidden, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Lucas Gonze, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, address@hidden, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down,
Lucas Gonze <=
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, David Kastrup, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Graham Percival, 2012/08/02
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/05
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, address@hidden, 2012/08/05
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, David Kastrup, 2012/08/05
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, George_, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Tim Roberts, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, David Kastrup, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/06