I'm thinking of converting some of my writing from an ad-hoc file format I invented ten or twenty yearas ago because I needed something that would cooperate with revision control and prevailing word-processors just wouldn't do that
to Scribble. and I'd like some performance estimates so that I can judge feasibility before I start on the long process of learning Scribble and actually doing the conversion. One question: how fast is it? I have an 80-thousand word document, and converting it to HTML and reviewing is an operation I oerform frequently as I fix, say, typos. It's mostly plain text with chapter headings and a few ad-hoc notations to delimit optional or coloured text. The conversion using my ad-hoc tools takes about 15 seconds on my laptop, and it's longer than I'd like. I don't know exactly how big the entire Scribble manual at http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/ is (icluding all the subsections in defferent pages) but knowing how long it takes to format something like that on a typical laptop would give me an order-of-magnitude idea. Or, for that matter, how can I download the source to the manual and format it at home so I can measure it myself? -- hendrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
