Re: winxp - delay and filenames

[Russ Lenth]

David Griffel <d.griffel <at> bristol.ac.uk> writes:

> 
> I've just started to use lilypond 2.8.5 installed on WinXP (not using
> cygwin).  I have a couple of simple questions about running under windows.
> 
> 1.  Even with a very small input file, I find a delay of 4-5 seconds 
> after  invoking lilypond before I see anything happening.  Is this 
> normal, or am I doing something wrong?  It's the same whether I type 
> "lilypond filename" in a console window, or invoke lilypond through an 
> editor interface.  I've used Latex a lot, which seems to work much 
> faster - but then music processing is more complicated than text.
> 
> 2.  It seems that lilypond can read files with long names, but it writes
> .ps and .pdf files in 8+4 format.  So if I use a filename with more than 
> 8 characters, the output files have apparently different names.  Is 
> there any way to get it to output .ps files with the same name as the 
> input file?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any answers
> David Griffel
> 

Regarding question 2, I had no problem with this using the command-line version
(2.9.12) in WinXP (see below).  I wonder if the conversion to 8+4 names is
happening in the way Windows handles the double-click event in Explorer.

Russ

c:\music > lilypond filewithverylongame.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.9.12
Processing `filewithverylongame.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
Interpreting music... [8][16][24][31]
Preprocessing graphical objects...
MIDI output to `filewithverylongame.midi'...
Track...
Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][27][30][32]
Drawing systems...
Calculating page breaks...
Layout output to `filewithverylongame.ps'...
Converting to `filewithverylongame.pdf'...