Re: ANN: Pygments support for LilyPond

[James]

Hello

On 22/11/2021 18:42, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> ...
>
> No, I'm trying to implement it in lilypond-book
> as an internal option. That's much simpler because
> all the infrastructure to run Python code is
> already there, and we can just 'import pygments'
> to access the API. It's also quite necessary to have
> all snippets highlighted in a single run of the Python
> interpreter because the time to fire up CPython is
> something like 0.05s which would mean several minutes
> spent just in Python startup time given the number
> of snippets. In contrast, timeit tells me that
> highlighting all snippets in one go should not take
> more than 10 seconds in total.

Apart from the obvious 'how to use this option' in the documentation for 
the lilypond-book command itself, I fear slightly though (from personal 
experience) that this may encourage over zealous use in our core 
documentation. Although I am intrigued to see a 'large' (i.e. something 
substantial) example just to get an idea of what this adds to the 
lilypond-book command.

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Regards

James

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