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Subject: Re: Do typescripts slow down ConTeXt?
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Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 12:39 29/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > i admit that typescripts are not fast, but the advantages of the current
> > > method is that i can change them easily as well as use different criteria
> > > when loading them; i did some experiments with (memory hungry) preloading,
> > > but on my system it made no real difference; normally the filesystem caches
> > > the files quite well; file searching may take a while when the file table
> > > (mktexlsr) is not up to date
> >
> >OK, but how can I at least switch off loading parts (typescripts, map 
> >files... see below) that I don't need?
> >
> >I didn't dare to go to the source and comment in/out lines myself.
> 
> you can of course make a minimal typescript file and then load only that 
> one by setting:
> 
> \def\typescriptfiles{yourfile.tex}
> 
> Hans


Thank you. Much better now!

Steffen