Am 2017-11-20 um 09:53 schrieb David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > Sure. It's part of the cost of using TeX as a programming language. > All the important and/or costly things when running plain TeX are > executed in Pascal and the respective data kept there. > > But LaTeX does a lot of programming in TeX macros (just take a look at > the difference for \"A or even Ä in some input encoding), and PDFTeX has > to deal with a lot more font data and structure than just the metrics in > the TFM file, and the respective libraries have not been written by > Knuth.
But LuaTeX again does away with a lot of the TeX programming, esp. regarding font handling (luaotfload for LaTeX, extracted from ConTeXt). With big documents, LuajitTeX is worth a look; depending on obscure circumstances, it’s mostly faster than "normal" LuaTeX. Don’t know how to invoke it with LaTeX, though (luajitlatex?). Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
