* Disable Metapost rendering?
@ 2004-07-24 10:59 Sebastian Sturm
2004-07-24 11:19 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-07-25 15:11 ` Hans Hagen Outside
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From: Sebastian Sturm @ 2004-07-24 10:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
I really like ConTeXt's MP processing features, but as soon as I
include more than five or six MP graphics in a document, typesetting
slows down to a crawl. As far as I know, the PSTricks package has some
option to only process a given range of the figures defined in the TeX
file and reuse the existing output for the other ones. Is there a
similar function in ConTeXt?
Some global command like \donotrerender[1-n] would be great, a
processing tag for each figure like
\startuseMPgraphic{...}[rerender=no] would be perfect.
Best regards,
Sebastian Sturm
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* Re: Disable Metapost rendering?
2004-07-24 10:59 Disable Metapost rendering? Sebastian Sturm
@ 2004-07-24 11:19 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-07-24 16:10 ` Hans Hagen Outside
2004-07-25 15:11 ` Hans Hagen Outside
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From: Patrick Gundlach @ 2004-07-24 11:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
The only way I know of is to disable all mpost runs with
texexec --nomp ..
Patrick
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* Re: Re: Disable Metapost rendering?
2004-07-24 11:19 ` Patrick Gundlach
@ 2004-07-24 16:10 ` Hans Hagen Outside
2004-07-25 8:35 ` Sebastian Sturm
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From: Hans Hagen Outside @ 2004-07-24 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>The only way I know of is to disable all mpost runs with
>
>texexec --nomp ..
>
>
there is also --automp
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* Re: Re: Disable Metapost rendering?
2004-07-24 16:10 ` Hans Hagen Outside
@ 2004-07-25 8:35 ` Sebastian Sturm
2004-07-25 15:17 ` Hans Hagen Outside
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From: Sebastian Sturm @ 2004-07-25 8:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
that sounds very promising - especially --automp, since I don't really
want to change my ConTeXt script everytime I changed a MP figure.
Including --automp in my script file, however, didn't stop ConTeXt from
recalculating my MP figures every time I typeset the document, even
though I hadn't changed them in the meantime. I couldn't find anything
about automp in the TeXExec manual, but the --help option tells me that
automp causes it to render mp pictures only if needed. So how does it
determine whether a recalculation is necessary or not? Is it a problem
if my figures rely on the randomizers, like uniformdeviate()?
Best regards,
Sebastian Sturm
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* Re: Re: Disable Metapost rendering?
2004-07-25 8:35 ` Sebastian Sturm
@ 2004-07-25 15:17 ` Hans Hagen Outside
2004-07-26 21:44 ` Sebastian Sturm
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From: Hans Hagen Outside @ 2004-07-25 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sebastian Sturm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> that sounds very promising - especially --automp, since I don't really
> want to change my ConTeXt script everytime I changed a MP figure.
> Including --automp in my script file, however, didn't stop ConTeXt
> from recalculating my MP figures every time I typeset the document,
> even though I hadn't changed them in the meantime. I couldn't find
> anything about automp in the TeXExec manual, but the --help option
> tells me that automp causes it to render mp pictures only if needed.
> So how does it determine whether a recalculation is necessary or not?
> Is it a problem if my figures rely on the randomizers, like
> uniformdeviate()?
indeed, that can be solved by setting the random seed occasionally or manually
\setupsystem[random=big] % or random=12345
Hans
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* Re: Re: Disable Metapost rendering?
2004-07-25 15:17 ` Hans Hagen Outside
@ 2004-07-26 21:44 ` Sebastian Sturm
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From: Sebastian Sturm @ 2004-07-26 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
>> p pictures only if needed. So how does it determine whether a
>> recalculation is necessary or not? Is it a problem if my figures rely
>> on the randomizers, like uniformdeviate()?
>
> indeed, that can be solved by setting the random seed occasionally or
> manually
> \setupsystem[random=big] % or random=12345
Great, thanks alot!
Best regards,
Sebastian Sturm
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* Re: Disable Metapost rendering?
2004-07-24 10:59 Disable Metapost rendering? Sebastian Sturm
2004-07-24 11:19 ` Patrick Gundlach
@ 2004-07-25 15:11 ` Hans Hagen Outside
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From: Hans Hagen Outside @ 2004-07-25 15:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sebastian Sturm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I really like ConTeXt's MP processing features, but as soon as I
> include more than five or six MP graphics in a document, typesetting
> slows down to a crawl. As far as I know, the PSTricks package has some
> option to only process a given range of the figures defined in the TeX
> file and reuse the existing output for the other ones. Is there a
> similar function in ConTeXt?
>
> Some global command like \donotrerender[1-n] would be great, a
> processing tag for each figure like
> \startuseMPgraphic{...}[rerender=no] would be perfect.
--automp will collect graphics and run them in between
Hans
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