[texshop] How use Carlisle's "mylatex" package with TeXShop?

[Murray Eisenberg]

So if my format file is named, say, “mydoc.fmt”, should the value of “format_name” be “mydoc.fmt” or just “mydoc” ?

> On 5 Dec2020, at 10:56 AM, Gary L. Gray <glgray at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Put the .fmt file in:
> 
> ~/Libarary/texmf/web2c/
> 
> Then, at the top of the file you want to typeset with that format, include the following line:
> 
> %!TEX TS-program = format_name
> 
> Gary
> 
>> On Dec 5, 2020, at 10:47 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> David Carlisle has a LaTeX package “mylatex” that allows one to create from a document source a special format executing everything from the source’s preamble. See “texdoc mylatex” and https://github.com/davidcarlisle/dpctex/tree/master/mylatex <https://github.com/davidcarlisle/dpctex/tree/master/mylatex> .
>> 
>> Once the package has been used to create the specialized .fmt, one would use it from the command line like this:
>> 
>> 	pdflatex "&mylatex” doc
>> 
>> where doc is the name of the .tex source file.
>> 
>> How can the existing TeXShop engines latex and pdflatexmk be modified so as to use the new format?
>> 
>> I want to do this with a book-length document whose preamble loads a great number of packages, so as to speed up the typeset time on each run, but do this still within TeXShop rather than the command line.
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