<div>On 7/31/07, Robin Houston <<a href="mailto:robin.houston@gmail.com">robin.houston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 31/07/07, Brad Miller <<a href="mailto:bmiller@luther.edu">bmiller@luther.edu</a>> wrote: > Here's my real world example for you then :-) Interesting situation; thanks! There is a kludgey workaround: write something like \include{myheader} % <- includes \begin{document}</blockquote><div> Cool, that gets me past that hurdle. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The string '\begin{document}' is taken to indicate the end of the preamble, even if it's in a comment. That's intentional, precisely to permit this kind of workaround; though perhaps it would be prettier to also recognise a special comment "% End of preamble" or some such. > How hard would it be to solve this problem the brute force way and just > provide a flag that would have the script recompile the whole document. I'm inclined to say, if that's what you want then Watch is not the tool you are looking for, since you won't get any benefit from it. If you do want to use Watch in such a situation, it is not hard to implement a workaround as described above.</blockquote><div> You may be right. I've been perfectly happy using the latex & view command and having Skim set up to auto update when the file changes. Plus, I have to do bibtexing and makeindexing a fair amount in my documents. But, since I dove into it to add it to the branch and move it into the Latex bundle, you are the victim of some of my random thoughts along the way. :-) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Of course ideally I'd like it to work without the need for a special workaround. When luaTeX is properly released (in about a year, if it goes to plan), I think I could implement a reasonable solution using that. </blockquote><div> luaTeX interesting... Would you use lua to replace some of the stuff that is written in TeX today? </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > I wonder whether precompiling the preamble really saves you that much time for > most documents on modern hardware?? All I know is that it saves an awful lot of time for my documents on my hardware. I wouldn't have bothered to write it otherwise! Do you not find that it does for yours? I know my Powerbook G4 is getting on a bit.</blockquote><div> On my mbp It takes about .75 seconds to typeset a 30 page chapter, which includes about 25 different packages. I don't even find that time noticeable given that I have to switch focus to a new window. Brad </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate"> http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div> -- Brad Miller Assistant Professor, Computer Science Luther College