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["Pablo S. Casas" <address@hidden>]

From: Peter Rapčan <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Float big table in two columns document
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:31:41 +0100

> Hi Pablo,
> 
> Regarding your PS. I never had speed problems with floating objects,
> but things get very slow once you use the 2-column mode (I guess the
> calculating the best layout an typesetting is much more complicated
> in such case). Do you experience the slowdown in the 1-column regime
> as well?
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Peter.

Hi Peter:

   You are right. If I use 1-column mode with several floats in a 15
pages document, editing the document is slow, but each modification
takes some seconds to recalculate the layout. In 2-column mode those
seconds of wait become more than 20 minutes, even for a simple added
letter to the document.

   The conclusion to use floats is: edit your the document in 1-column
mode if possible and at the last stage when the document is almost
final, change it to 2-column mode. Or even better, avoid floats till
the final stages of edition.

   Thanks for your comments.

   Pablo S. Casas