On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:40 AM luigi scarso <luigi.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we should start from > > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/324559/guidelines-for-using-mylatexformat-with-luatex > True! The goal behind my question was a bit more ambitious: Do dump (serialise) the whole state of the luatex engine into a restartable glob. Or even better, to have a tex-server that never leaves memory. This way I can do my type-recompile loop without interrupting by flow. (precompiled format it's a bit misleading -- a format it's already a set > of compiled macros. I prefer custom format, as the link says) > It does not have to be a custom format in a strict TeX-sense, in that it is saved somewhere permanently. I usually work on only one document at a time, so I'm totally happy with one lengthy setup and then fast iterations.
