28 Aug
2009
28 Aug
'09
1:15 a.m.
luigi scarso wrote:
You cannot start processing page 500 before you know where page 499 wil end. []
Hm, not so sure. Think for example to a book with 3 chapters, and you know at priori that there are not relations
The root of the problem is that because TeX is a programming language as well as a typesetting engine, there is no way of knowing what the state of the engine will be after the next token has been read, never mind the next chapter. Mojca wrote:
You can try XeTeX if you want to put load on both processors. It does offer a parallel process as far as I heard
Xetex runs the typesetting engine and the PDF generation backend in separate processes. Luatex may eventually start doing that also. Best wishes, Taco