[TxMt] slow latex compilation

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Christof Janssen wrote:

> On 9. Mrz 2007, at 14:31, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>
>> On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:22 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>>
>>>>  My copy of Textmate calls pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3  
>>>> (Web2C 7.5.6) and (my) Texshop pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2  
>>>> (Web2C 7.5.5).
>>
>> So, the thing that worries me here is that textmate uses pdftex  
>> instead of pdfetex. Wondering why that is, because typically it  
>> runs pdfetex. Hopefully a tex file I can compile might give some  
>> hints.
>
> Haris,
>
> I just realized that Texshop relies on the tetex distribution  
> (installed with i-installer in /usr/local/teTex/bin/powerpc-apple- 
> darwin7.9.0). pdflatex in that directory makes a call to pdftex. I  
> have recently added gerben wierdas gwtex (also using the i- 
> installer/automatic configuration: /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc- 
> apple-darwin7.9.0). The latter is called by textmate and executes  
> pdfetex. In the past, I must have used the previous engine with  
> Textmate too. Which is the current version of pdfetex then?

Actually your problem is the other way around, it is textmate that is  
NOT executing pdfetex, at least doesn't seem to, which is what is  
puzzling me. So if you change the call that TeXShop makes and have it  
use gwTeX instead, do you then get the same log files?

Btw, do you have a /usr/texbin directory? If so, which distribution  
does it point to?

Also, when you compile from the command line via pdflatex, which  
version of tex is used then?

> Does it make sense to send tex files if they cause trouble only  
> with an outdated/depreciated engine?

If by deprecated you mean pdftex versus pdfetex, then yes it does  
make sense because textmate switches to use different engines based  
on the existence of some packages in the preamble, and perhaps that's  
where the problem is. So if you can send us the preamble, that's the  
part that I care about.

> Christof
>
Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College