performance: Linux vs Win

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2002-06-08 14:29 +0300, Al. Andreou wrote:
> > Na symplirwsw kai tin ergasia me megala arxeia (100+ selides) pou
> > periexoun photographies, sximata, mathimatikes exiswseis, ...  I
> > epexergasia enos tetoiou arxeiou me to Word einai (stin kaliteri
> > periptwsi) mazoxismos.
>
> στην περίπτωση της επεξεργασίας μεγάλων αρχείων, τι εναλλακτικά υπάρχουν;
> η συγγραφή τους σε (la)TeX είναι επίσης μαζοχισμός;

Panta uparxei kai to ejhs:

	\include{preface.tex}
	\include{introduction.tex}
	\include{getting.tex}
	\include{unpacking.tex}
	\include{installing.tex}
	...

Ki an milame gia pragmatika MEGALA keimena, opws ena biblio oloklhro
me parts kai chapters kai sections kai subsections, mporeis panta na
kaneis kati san:

	% cat book.tex
	\documentclass{book}

	\begin{document}
	  \include{frontmatter.tex}
	  \include{part1.tex}
	  \include{part2.tex}
	  \include{appendices.tex}
	\end{document}

	...

	% cat part1.tex
	\part{System Administrator's Guide}
	\include{sysadm/all.tex}

	...

	% cat part1.tex
	\part{User's Guide}
	\include{user/all.tex}

Den exei nomizo limit sto poso nested mporei na einai ta \include.

Kati tetoio *sxedon* ta katafere na einai to "Master Document" tou
Word, alla teleutaia fora pou to dokimasa se Word 6 htan akoma
epioikws gia ta mpaza.  Epishs to kako tou "master document" tote htan
oti ta subdocuments ta ekane reference me absolute pathnames, kai an
metakinouses to top directory kapou allou (p.x. gia na organoseis ta
keimena sou ligo) epairnes to apotelesma pou fantazeste... polla mikra
kai eksisou broken links.

To LaTeX kubernaei, akoma kai shmera, gia tetoia pragmata... to na
grafeis megala keimena, me ``typesetting quality'' output.

- Giorgos