> please contact me (ideally on the XeTeX mailing list) and > we can discuss the changes you wish to make. If they > benefit everyone, they will be worked in as a new version.
I would like to invoke that clause. I am definitely not planning to release any modified version of the package. > Instead, you can create your own package which can be loaded on top of > uchar.....sty or you can put your changes at the preamble of your > document. It turns out not to be possible to fix the problem without fixing ucharclasses.sty itself. Regards, Bruno > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Bruno Le Floch <blfla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Loading the ucharclasses package with no option is extremely slow (> >> 2min on my installation), because it loads every Unicode block (as >> documented). >> >> The performance can be significantly improved by using lower-level >> code for the loops. For instance, using the following helper macro >> (not quite optimized for speed, because I wanted to remain reasonably >> close to the original \forloop syntax): >> >> \newcommand{\@ucc@forloop}[1] >> {\expandafter\@ucc@forloop@\csname c@#1\endcsname} >> \newcommand{\@ucc@forloop@}[4]{% >> #1=#2\relax >> \loop >> #4\relax >> \ifnum#1<#3\relax >> \advance#1 by \@ne >> \repeat >> } >> >> we can replace the definition of `\@defineUnicodeClass` by >> >> \newcounter{glyphcounter} >> \newcommand{\@defineUnicodeClass}[3]{% >> \newXeTeXintercharclass#1 >> \@ucc@forloop {glyphcounter}{#2}{#3} >> {\XeTeXcharclass\value{glyphcounter}=#1} >> } >> >> (in other words, change the \forloop line). All other \forloop can be >> replaced in a similar way, giving rise to a 10 fold speed improvement >> at least. >> >> This post stems from an [answer I gave on the TeX.stackexchange >> network]( >> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32351/is-there-a-way-to-speed-up-the-use-of-ucharclasses/32379#32379 >> ). >> Is that answer "legal", given the license of the package, or should I >> delete it? >> >> Regards, >> Bruno >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex