Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2007/6/12, Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> I am happy to give you a sneak preview to my ambitious music notation
> project based on Lilypond 2.10, a digital edition of the 1867 song book:

very cool

> Lilypond does an excellent job on these songs, and only few manual
> tweaks were necessary.  Some tweaks may be the result of my lack of
> understanding of Lilypond internals.  The whole book contains 136
> songs, each about 1 DIN A5 page on average.  The build tree produced
> by lilypond-book is over 700 MB (!) strong, I suspect because the
> required fonts are copied into each EPS file (can this be improved?).

checkout -dhelp, You probably want to use

 -dgs-load-fonts

and preferably pdflatex.

If you're technically inclined, you can run

 make web >& logfile

and see how we build the documentation. We try to minizime font loads too
as it slows down the build.

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