Taco said: > Duane Johnson wrote: > >> 1. Is there a way to keep TeX in-memory (i.e. as a server or daemon >> process) so that it doesn't have to load and reload fonts and the >> environment? Our system makes repeated requests for typeset >> documents and we are wondering if there's a way to remove the >> overhead of re-running pdftex. >> > > No, there is not (at least not using any of the 'stock' tex > distributions). The one thing you could do is preload the fonts > and modules you need into the format file, but setting this up > is not completely trivial either. > Indeed not trivial. But something I played with once upon a time for much the same purpose. You should take a look at Jonathan Fine's TeX daemon project texd (http://sourceforge.net/projects/texd) if you haven't already - it runs as a pipe (unix) and only loads formats once; it would take a little bit work to get it going reliably with ConTeXt, especially to do so in a way that is easily updated when a new ConTeXt is released, and I'm not sure if Jonathan is still actively working on the project. But it demonstrates an effective approach, which works with Plain (and LaTeX I think).
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