El 05/02/2007, a las 2:16, Adam R. Maxwell escribió:
It's a good idea, though not one I am likely to use any time soon personally. processor cycles are relatively cheap these days and it's hard to break old habits. Plus, I change my preambles all the time ;)
There was a recent discussion on the Mac OS X TeX list about the fragility of this. Here's another note from the past <http:// www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2005-February/013634.html>.
Also, the %&format in the first line of a file is generally disabled, unless you've manually set parse_first_line = t in texmf.cnf or pass -parse-first-line to pdftex. This has been discussed numerous times on the Mac OS X TeX list.
Ok
thanks a lot, I didn't know nothing about "-parse-first-line" as option for pdftex, thanks!!
but I don't agree with the "dangerous and then never use" % &formats... I can assure you that it is very time consuming and a good way of organizing your docs. I have several .fmts for my every day work. Of course you never must put \dump after \begin{document}, where all those auxiliary files will be created. You usually want to put \dump and make your format.fmt file before \begin{document} and after those milliard of styles and options you need.
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