Re: Can Lilypond export separate pdfs?

[Joe Neeman]

On Friday 04 May 2007 03:35, Laura Conrad wrote:
> >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Good <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Adam> I've been using Lilypond-LaTeX lately to start getting my
>     Adam> book of 1-3 page pieces together. It's working for the most
>     Adam> part pretty well although it can be painfully slow the more
>     Adam> pieces i \include and I'm only up to about 19 pieces in my
>     Adam> book so far. I can't even imagine what's going to happen
>     Adam> when I have about 30 pieces, I think it's just going to
>     Adam> choke.
>
> I'm having trouble following this discussion of lilypond-book being
> slow -- I've just been putting together a 110 page book of Dowland
> parts (so about 80 individual 1-2 page "pieces" from lilypond's point
> of view), and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast lilypond-book
> would recreate all the .ly files.  I'm not saying I didn't go get a
> cup of coffee when I had to redo all 80, but I certainly didn't need
> to do it overnight or anything. 2.10 is definitely a lot faster than
> 2.0 was.

That's funny. Have you been using system-count or restricting where the line 
and page breaks occur?