I meant, of course, speed of scribble. On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 09:41:26PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm thinking of converting some of my writing > > from an ad-hoc file format I invented ten or twenty yearas ago because > I needed something that would cooperate with revision control and > prevailing word-processors just wouldn't do that > > to Scribble. > > and I'd like some performance estimates so that I can judge feasibility > before I start on the long process of learning Scribble and actually doing > the conversion. > > One question: how fast is it? I have an 80-thousand word document, and > converting it to HTML and reviewing is an operation I oerform > frequently as I fix, say, typos. It's mostly plain text with chapter > headings and a few ad-hoc notations to delimit optional or > coloured text. > > The conversion using my ad-hoc tools takes about 15 seconds on my laptop, > and it's longer than I'd like. > > I don't know exactly how big the entire Scribble manual at > http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/ is (icluding all the subsections > in defferent pages) but knowing how long it takes to format > something like that on a typical laptop would give me an > order-of-magnitude idea. > > Or, for that matter, how can I download the source to the manual and > format it at home so I can measure it myself? > > -- hendrik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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