Re: --silent switch seems not to work.

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

John R. Culleton wrote:
> The --silent parameter seems to have no effect. I still get
> messages listing every  typescript in use on every pass: e.g.,
> (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex)
> (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex)
> (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex)
> (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex)
> (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-map.tex)
> (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex)
> (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)
> (./type-charter.tex
> 
> The above is repeated about four times. 

--silent only surpresses macro-generated messages, not the ones from
TeX itself. For quieter runs, you can try --batch (\batchmode), but
that will hide (and abort on) any errors in the file.

> All this trivia slows down the compile process significantly.

For a real speedup, set \preloadtypescripts to true in your
cont-sys.tex. It will stop context from loading the files
over and over, instead loading it only once and interpreting the
file completely in that one go. That is much faster (at the expense
of always having the whole contents of those files in memory)

> I am using texexec 5.4.3. I get warning messages telling me to
> use texmfstart instead but since that script is not functional on my

What do you mean with 'not functional'? No ruby installed?

Cheers,
Taco