Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 4/8/06, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> (I wonder is we still need to preload regimes, maybe the ones mostly
>> used ... which ones)
>>
>
> If I knew how to do that, I would implement it in the following way:
>
> Somewhere it would be defined where a specific regime is located
> \defineregimefile[cp1250][regi-cp1250]
> ...
> \defineregimefile[isoir111][regi-cyp]
> ...
>
> Then you don't need to read all those files / preload all those
> regimes (except for the really common ones). So if someone says
> \enableregime[windows-1250]
> then ConTeXt knows that it is a synonym for cp1250, that cp1250 is
> located in regi-cp1250.tex and finally loads the appropriate file and
> enables the regime.
>
actually, this is what happens when a regime is not preloaded (i.e. see
end of regi-ini)
currently:
\useregime[def,uni,iso-8858-1,iso-8858-2,cp1252,mac]
maybe:
\useregime[def,uni] % rest runtime
> I don't know what exactly "preloading" means (are the definitions
> already included in format or are the files read in at runtime?) I
>
a few are in the format, eating up hash entries and memory; but since
regimes are global anyway ...
> doubt that it would save any resources that way, but in case it would,
> the regimes might be preloaded depending on mainlanguage. (If someone
> typesets Slovenian texts, it would preloa utf, cp1250 and latin2, if
> someone typesets russian, you would preload cyrilic regimes, ...)
>
> Otherwise I would say: if the regimes eat a lot of memory, don't
> preload the new ones yet (except cp1250) until someone requests them.
>
or preload none since loading is fast enough
Hans
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