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Speeding up compilation using precompiled preamble with LuaTeX
Compiling my documents with lualatex takes quite long. I have a complex preamble, and noticed it takes long to process this part of the file.
Today I came across this website, which proposes a trick ...
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Need commands for creating manual “pre-compile” of preamble in Windows, perhaps by pressing a button
I would like to manually create a separate file with preamble "pre-compiled". I found a very simple example at:
ultrafast pdflatex with precompiling
where Jonas Stein describes their example:
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ultrafast pdflatex with precompiling
I try to improve the time pdflatex needs to compile my book.
Really working example
book.tex
%&preamble
\begin{document}
Hi
\end{document}
and
preamble.tex
\documentclass{article}
I run ...
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Why doesn't latexmk handle errors in the preamble?
Today I discovered that if I have an error in the preamble of my tex file then Latexmk produce an error only once.
Precisely, for example if my file looks like this
\documentclass{article}
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Precompile header with xelatex
I read about precompiling the preamble in http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/15606/4918 and it worked fine with pdflatex but how can I do this for xelatex?
I tried
xelatex -ini -shell-escape ...
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Compiling partial documents (without document tags)
I am getting some colleagues to migrate from Word to LaTeX for technical documents, but old habits die hard.
I am looking for a way to compile each LaTeX document partially without document tags, so ...
