Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[Lucas Gonze]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Lucas Gonze <address@hidden> wrote:> Is it 
> architecturally possible to make a significant amount of
>> overhead go away? Are incremental compiles plausible?
>
> Architecturally it is very difficult. Rather than making lilypond much
> more complicated to do incremental rendering, why not invert the
> problem: have your editor control line breaks, and use lilypond to
> render just one line of music at a time.

This is an excellent idea.

It would also help expose the semantics of the piece to the front end code.