Greetings,
I have used TextMate for some time for programming and other text-editing things and I love the program. I would like to use it for LaTeX documents as well; it's superior customization is a significant help in speeding up technical writing. However, the speed of compilation in TM is incredibly slower than in TeXShop, the program I am forced to use now. It is a significant enough difference that it is incredibly frustrating to use TM for LaTeX. Both programs are using pdflatex engine, I am not running the Latexmk.pl script, and I'm running straightforward scripts (mostly for short papers and class assignments) so there should be no speed difference?
I wonder if anyone else had this issue and if there is some kind of fix. I am running on a 6-month-old MacBook Pro so speed should not be an issue --- I had read someone re-wrote the compile script to be faster, but have not found any link to such a script. I have put a screencast at http://files.tomshafer.name/misc/textmatelatex/ demonstrating the differences both in initial compile time (not an issue) and subsequent file time (very important to me — I compile every minute or so to preview changes).
Any thoughts would be much appreciated! I very much enjoy TextMate and to be able to write LaTeX would be a magnificent upgrade for me.
Cheers, Tom Shafer
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hi Tom,
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I wonder if anyone else had this issue and if there is some kind of fix. I am running on a 6-month-old MacBook Pro so speed should not be an issue --- I had read someone re-wrote the compile script to be faster, but have not found any link to such a script. I have put a screencast at http://files.tomshafer.name/misc/textmatelatex/ demonstrating the differences both in initial compile time (not an issue) and subsequent file time (very important to me — I compile every minute or so to preview changes).
Have you tried Alex Ross's LaTeX 2 bundle? It's available from
http://github.com/lasersox/latex.tmbundle
and significantly speeds things up (as well as tidying up some other aspects). The downloaded source should expand to a directory called something like
lasersox-latex.tmbundle-b5bbb31
kill the portion of the name after ".tmbundle" and then double click the resulting bundle package to install it. If you like what you see you can deactivate the original LaTeX bundle from the Bundle Editor (via the "Filter List..."), which will allow command-R to be pointing at a single command.
Cheers, Paul
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Thomas Shafer