[TxMt] slow latex compilation

[Christof Janssen]

On 9. Mrz 2007, at 15:31, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> 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?

Issuing the commands in a terminal, yes, I can always reproduce the  
error logs. The same occurs when I change the path in the Texshop  
preferences. pdflatex in the gwTeX tree always calls the pdftex  
engine rather than pdfetex and pdflatex in the tetex tree calls pdfetex.

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

Yes, it points to /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/ 
Programs/powerpc, which is a symlink to /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc- 
apple-darwin-current
>
> Also, when you compile from the command line via pdflatex, which  
> version of tex is used then?

The path is set to the gwTeX version, which calls pdftex rather than  
pdfetex.

> [...] So if you can send us the preamble, that's the part that I  
> care about.

Here the preamble:

\documentclass[cjanssenlpmaa,backaddress=false]{scrlttr2}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pdfsync}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lucidabr}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\setkomavar{subject}{blablabla}
\date{09 mars 2007}



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macromates.com/textmate/attachments/20070309/cd8fb6d5/attachment.html>