I've tried 'latex and view' again and it does now start up faster than I remember!

Thanks for the great work, Geoff

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On 24 Mar 2015, at 13:32 , Geoff Vallis gkvallis@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Ren,

Your fix did the trick, thanks very much.

The reasons I don't use 'typeset and view' are twofold. The main one is just that it is a bit slow - I have to wait almost five seconds before it actually starts to typeset, which may not seem very long but when I am 'debugging' it is a little frustrating. Using a terminal window the typesetting starts instantly.

Commit 39b09967 [1] should improve the startup time of `texmate` significantly.

I get an overhead of less than 0.3s if I use `texmate` on a minimal file. The translation of the minimal file inside Terminal using the command `time pdflatex tmp.tex` takes 0.55s. The following command ? basically simulating a run of ?Typeset & View (PDF)? ? inside TextMate takes about 0.79s:

? #!/usr/bin/env bash

BUNDLE_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application Support/Avian/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle" TM_BUNDLE_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles"

export TM_FILEPATH="tmp.tex" export TM_SUPPORT_PATH="$TM_BUNDLE_DIR/Bundle Support.tmbundle/Support/shared" export TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT="$BUNDLE_DIR/Support" export PATH="$BUNDLE_DIR/Support/bin":$PATH export TM_SELECTION='1:1'

texmate.py -suppressview latex -latexmk no -engine pdflatex ?

tmp.tex: ? \documentclass{article}

\begin{document} Bla \end{document} ?

Could you maybe test the above example and send in your results. If it takes multiples seconds before `texmate` starts typesetting, then maybe your local copy of the bundle does not contain the changes done in commit 5074427f [2]?

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The second reason is that I can go back and forth between xelatex and pdflatex easily by setting up two scripts with different keyboard shortcuts, which I find quite convenient.

You can change the typesetting engine used by ?Typeset & View (PDF)? with the following commands:

defaults write com.macromates.textmate.preview latexEngine xelatex defaults write com.macromates.textmate.preview latexEngine pdflatex

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I know there are some advantages to 'typeset and view' and if it were a bit quicker, like the equivalent command in TexShop which is quite fast, I would use it.

Hopefully the latest changes help.

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Thanks again Geoff

Kind regards, Ren?