Re: [Texmacs-dev] Very slow reformat in large document.

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:43:36PM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> in re: Debian texmacs-1:1.0.5-2
> 
> Over the last two terms, I've used TeXmacs to do Computer Science lab
> writeups.  The document becomes very long, and has places where I use a
> small font inside a \code inside a two-column layout, for programs and
> output.  I don't know if that's where the slow-down is or not...

As soon as you use two-column layout, footnotes or floating objects,
be prepared to slow-downs on big documents.

Simple text may be a bit slow on loading (if we are talking about
hundreds of pages), but has been speeded up for editing.

> There are also occasional problems with page layout, where it will break
> a page in the middle, and put something on the next page that really
> ought to fit on the one before it.  The one before it has a lot of blank
> space at the bottom.

Page breaking is global. You may locally have the impression that
something better could be done, but run into global problems.