[TxMt] Re: Speed Up LaTeX Bundle?

[Paul McCann]

Hi Tom,

[[slow latex compiling]]

> 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