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["Riccardo Ferrari" <address@hidden>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norbert Schöpke [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:17 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [TeXmacs] editing speed, performance under cygwin
> 
> 
> hi
> I use TeXmacs for writing my diploma thesis and I get along quite 
> nicely (big thanks to the developers btw.)
> But the performance on my not quite _that_ old system is not very 
> good. Scrolling and continuousy updating
> layout while writing more like "crawl". It all works, but can I 
> do anything to speed it up a little?
> Spec is WinXP+cygwin+tetex on 1,8 GHz and 512 Mb ram
> 
> thx
> Norbert Schöpke

Dear Norbert,

I near have your configuration (1,6 Ghz instead of 1.8) and can
work nicely on my thesis (It would have needed me thrice the time
if I wrote it in LaTeX! Very big thanks to the developers!).

I may give you two advices to speed up editing:

1) Divide your work in multiple files, one for each chapter.
Then link every one of them in a "master" document. Do
update the master only when you really need, because page
breaking and so on may take a while with a hundred of
pages or more.

2) Always set Document->Page->Type to Papyrus when you work
on single chapters, it really makes a difference.


Should it be the case, I will gladly help you about other
topics, having almost finished a work like yours.

Bye

Riccardo Ferrari