Re: tetex weirdness
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 02:23:13PM -0500, Joseph Chung wrote:
> I use TeX primarily for lilypond music typesetting. Ever since the upgrade
> from hamm to slink, I've been frustrated with tetex. Does creating the ls-R
> database really need to take 30 minutes on a K6-2/333? Does xdvi really need
> to take 15 minutes to pop up? Anytime I try to do anything with tetex,
> kpsewhich is eating 98.6% of CPU for 20 minutes. Did I screw up the install or
> is this normal behavior for tetex?
I use tetex (in fact mainly LaTeX) on my pentium 75MHz /32MB with slink
without such problems. Well, I don't use xdvi, because it can "fail asleep"
for 5 minutes while changing the page, to generate lacking fonts.
I always convert my docs to PS (with dvips) and view them with gv, which works
MUCH faster.
For me it seems that in your tetex installation the generated fonts are not
kept, and are generated again and again everytime you run it. I don't know
what can be the reason of such behavior :-(.
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Wojciech Zabolotny
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