pá 3. 7. 2020 v 21:43 odesílatel Michael Maxwell <mmaxw...@umd.edu> napsal:
> > > 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). > If macroexpansion takes a lot of time, you should learn how to write your own simple macros instead of loading a huge amount of packages. On my computer I compile a book with 450 pages twice by LaTeX, then BibTeX + Makeindex (as parallel tasks) and again LaTeX twice and all this takes 25 seconds. Using a specialized format instead of loading the styles would save less than a second because I rarely need more than 5 packages. > > 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? > Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
