On 7/3/2020 2:28 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
There are several options:
1. Dump your own format with your styles. You will have to regenerate
the format after update of any of these style files and you will have to
take care of dependencies
2. Install TeX on a fast disk such as SSD
3. Increase your RAM and use larger disk cache, on my Linux computers
the unchanged files can remain in cache for hours
I already have 2 and 3, although afaict 3 has little if any effect,
because the processing time appears to be taken up with macro expansion
(or whatever it is that tex does while processing the preamble).
1 is what I was looking for, but how do you do it? I tried
xelatex -ini <my tex file>
but it chokes on the \documentclass; or when I try it on my style sheet
alone, it chokes on the \ProvidesPackage. Apparently it works with
plain TeX, but not with LaTeX? And I'm not sure this would do what I
want anyway; what it means to "be xeinitix"; a web search for that term
was unproductive (unless you're looking for some kind of gas warning light).
Can you give me a lead on how to do #1?
