Hans Hagen wrote:

At 12:39 29/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:

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Hans Hagen wrote:

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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