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Re: [OT] Linux Users
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Henning Hraban Ramm |
Subject: |
Re: [OT] Linux Users |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:56:43 +0100 |
Am 2017-11-20 um 09:53 schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Sure. It's part of the cost of using TeX as a programming language.
> All the important and/or costly things when running plain TeX are
> executed in Pascal and the respective data kept there.
>
> But LaTeX does a lot of programming in TeX macros (just take a look at
> the difference for \"A or even Ä in some input encoding), and PDFTeX has
> to deal with a lot more font data and structure than just the metrics in
> the TFM file, and the respective libraries have not been written by
> Knuth.
But LuaTeX again does away with a lot of the TeX programming, esp. regarding
font handling (luaotfload for LaTeX, extracted from ConTeXt).
With big documents, LuajitTeX is worth a look; depending on obscure
circumstances, it’s mostly faster than "normal" LuaTeX. Don’t know how to
invoke it with LaTeX, though (luajitlatex?).
Greetlings, Hraban
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