[XeTeX] Arabic prose

[Jonathan Kew]

On 1 Jul 2005, at 7:11 pm, Bernd wrote:

> I have 1.5 GB of Ram, iMac 2GHz, and xdv2pdf seems to be the  
> process that takes so long.
> I tried to delete my TexShop.plist in case it has something to do  
> with TeXShop but it didn't change anything. Typesetting more  
> complex documents take up to 2 minutes.
> Other non-XeteX documents typeset fine, no delays.
> Is there some configuration file of Xetex that might be corrupted?

No, I don't think so.... my guess is that it has something to do with  
Spotlight indexing, as this issues seems to be new in Tiger, but I  
don't have a definite answer for it.

(To confirm that it's not anything to do with TeXShop, you could try  
processing the same documents using xetex from the conmmand line. I  
think you'll see the same delay.)

It would be interesting to try restarting OS X, and see if the  
behavior is the same with a freshly booted system. I just restarted  
my PowerBook, as it happens, and the ArabJustify example seems to  
typeset noticeable faster than previously. Timing from Terminal:

> Kew-PowerBookG4:~/Desktop jonathan$ time xetex ArabJustify
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> entering extended mode
> (./ArabJustify.tex [1] )
> Output written on ArabJustify.pdf (1 page).
> Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.
>
> real    0m1.182s
> user    0m0.558s
> sys     0m0.257s
> Kew-PowerBookG4:~/Desktop jonathan$

If anyone who is experiencing this slow-down knows how to use  
performance tools such as Shark to monitor what's happening, perhaps  
we can isolate the cause....

JK


>
> Bernd.
>
> Jonathan Kew schrieb:
>
>> On 1 Jul 2005, at 5:26 pm, Bernd wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, that's what I was looking for. You're great.
>>>
>>> BTW, is it normal that it takes about 30 seconds in TexShop to   
>>> produce a PDF (your example)? I got an iMac 2GHz and I thought I   
>>> have a pretty fast machine...
>>>
>> I just tried it, and takes about 5 seconds for me (PowerBook   
>> G4/1.67GHz, OS X 10.4.1).
>> I've seen delays like that sometimes, but not sure exactly why.  
>> Do  you have plenty of RAM?
>> JK
>>
>
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