On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:54:10 +0200
Daniel wrote:
> On 23/04/2019 14:09, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 15:51:11 +0200
> > Daniel wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> My manuscript takes very long to fully compile, a couple of
> >> minutes.
> >
> > We don't know how long it is. If it's a thousand pages, 2 minutes
> > sounds about right on my computer.
>
> I did not have the computer I am working on available when I wrote
> this. It takes about 5 minutes for 200 pages.
In another post you said your 5 minute computer is a Intel m3 from 2015
(900 MHz, 4 GB RAM).
[snip]
> > Why not try a shellscript (or if you Windows, batch file or
> > powerscript) to build it. Also, just for fun, try using LuaTeX
> > instead of LaTeX, and see if there are changes. Note that to use
> > LuaTeX, you might need to change a few settings in your
> > manuscript.
>
> Yes, I am on windows. I don't know how to create a batch file that
> does the job.
>
> LuaTeX is still typesetting my document. Seems to take ages.
I meant LuaLaTeX. Try pdfLaTeX also.
But here's the thing. You have an ancient, anemic machine, which spends
much of its puny power running Windows. You don't know how to make a
batch file or powerscript, and don't seem amenable to learning how to
do so. In another of your posts you seem lukewarm about compiling
subdocument combinations to try to profile where the slowdown is. You
say you can't reduce your huge number of references.
Frankly, this sounds like a problem of your priorities. You're not
willing to spend a few hundred on a modern 3Ghz 8GB machine, you won't
install minimal Linux with a lightweight window manager to get the most
out of your m3, you won't whittle it down to a Minimal Working Example
whose compile time is insane compared to its size, you don't know and
won't learn batch files/powerscript, you refuse to alter your document
either as a solution or as a diagnostic test. You ask others incomplete,
ambiguous questions with only partial context. This problem just isn't
worth solving to you, and for some reason you think it will be worth it
to others to solve your problem.
Speaking for myself, I'm usually willing to help, but in the end
analysis, this is your problem, not mine. If you want *my* help, you're
going to need to take over the busywork, reserving my input to helpful
hints.
SteveT
