Re: Plan for discussions

[David Kastrup]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:

> On 14/05/12 07:37, Graham Percival wrote:
>> No.  LilyPond is a command-line "compiler".  That's something that
>> would happen in an alternate program.
>
> I'm not disputing that, or suggesting that you go into GUI/IDE
> territory directly -- what I'm suggesting is that consideration be
> given to what might help enable such an alternative program.  E.g. can
> LP be in a position to permit an IDE to perform efficient background
> compilation, enabling it to update as you type, and to alert you to
> errors in your input?
>
>> Consideration will be given to overall compile speed, but that's
>> it.  A really intelligent editor could only update sections of the
>> score at once (via the clip or skipMeasures functionality), but
>> again that's back to "alternate program" territory.
>
> Well, the problem of LP right now is that to tweak a single note
> requires a complete rebuild of the score regardless of how minimally
> it affects the final output.

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/source/Documentation/notation/skipping-corrected-music>

-- 
David Kastrup