@egreg and anyway, we don't use Matěj for the disciple, we use Matouš.

@yo' Tha's from German!

@barbarabeeton Oh no! Take care! <3 <3 <3

@egreg well, more from Hebrew and Greek :)

tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/139301

@JosephWright @StefanKottwitz @MartinScharrer tex.stackexchange.com/questions/407244/… The question is unclear, since the real cause of the problem is unknown.The answer just states: Works for me. Any actions to take?

@egreg I like how James became Tiago for us. :)

Sorry, I meant the other one. :)

@barbarabeeton Ouch! Living in the home town of freezing rain, I can only sympathise. Been lucky myself so far, despite several bad falls. Good luck with your upcoming convalescence!

@barbarabeeton Get better soon.

Quack!

@Nasser I have wondered about doing that but not tried yet, but why not use the native windows texlive? (personally I use cygwin texlive)

@DavidCarlisle because I have all my makefiles and linux scripts and everything setup. Currently I use Linux for all the builds. I suppose I could install texlive on windows. But I am used to using texlive on Linux. I tried cygwin, did not like it, and I do not think it will be as fast as WSL. Between cygwin and VBox, VBox is much better. it is true Linux. So is WSL. One install actual Linux. Not emulation.

I have been compiling tex for last 2 weeks and it is still not finished. About 180 files. They are large. But tex4ht is very slow. 2 weeks, 24 hrs, and still not done.

@Nasser who reads your gigantic files? :-)

some people do :)

@Nasser are you sitting with 4 cores three of them doing nothing for 2 weeks?

@Nasser why not just boot linux directly rather than use a virtual machine or the linux subsystem?

@DavidCarlisle I am running on VBox. I do not think VBox does mutlicore. The whole VBox runs on one core I think. But either way, the slow part is pdfcrop and converting pdf to SVG images. pdflatex is fast, it is tex4ht which is sooooo slow.

@DavidCarlisle I only have one PC. Running windows 7.

@Nasser yes but why not run linux?

@DavidCarlisle I am running linux? Inside virtual box, hosted on windows. That is what I mean.

@Nasser yes but that is typically very slow compared to booting into linux

I need to use both windows and linux at same time. I have many apps on windows I need.

Here is screen shot on my linux window

!Mathematica graphics

@Nasser also how often do your svg images change? surely you don't have to convert them more than once do you?

It takes like 10 seconds to process one pdf file to svg. I have hundreds of thousands of these. I only convert pdf to SVG once. This is running makefiles. This is first time.

need to convert pdf to SVG since I use svg in tex4ht

@Nasser: is Cygwin an option?

@PauloCereda tried cygwin long time ago. It should be faster than VBox. But now I think I will go buy windows 10 PC and try WSL. Will report if texlive works OK under WSL.

@Nasser are these mathematica plots? or do they involve tex

@DavidCarlisle the PDF files are all images generated from Mathematica. I then convert each PDF to svg, using this script:

@Nasser that operation is trivially parallelisable so if your machine has 8 cores you should be able to make it 8 times faster by just running 8 copies of the conversion script at the same time

@Nasser can't you just get mathematica to write svg rather than pdf and skip the conversion step?

@DavidCarlisle as I said, I do not know if VBOx supports mutlicores. Either way, I do not know how to speed it up. I just start make and check again in one month.

@DavidCarlisle Mathematica does not support SVG actually. It says it does. But it does not. It puts the image as png inside SVG wrapper. Known issue.

@Nasser you said you were thinking of buying a new machine... but it would be quicker to boot to linux do whatever you need to do and then boot back to windows

@Nasser hard to believe that isn't fixable in mathematica code. Are you sure the pdf isn't the same?

@DavidCarlisle But I want to run linux and windows at same time. On same desktop. side by side, like I do now. Share files, etc...

@Nasser is your machibe usable running pdfcrop full time for 2 weeks?

Mathematica exports PDF just fine. True PDF. But not for SVG. It does not. It calls the file svg, but it is not true SVG.

@DavidCarlisle yes. The PC is running all the time for 2 months now. Do not boot until build is completed.

VBox uses 4 GB RAM. I have 16 GB RAM in total. So it does not affect me at all.

@DavidCarlisle I also forgot to say, I need the PDF files as well as the SVG files. I use pdf files for lualatex and svg for tex4ht. If I can get rid of the conversion of PDF to SVG it will go long way to speed things up.

good night everyone. Will let you know if I install texlive on windows 10 under WSL and see if it works well.

@Nasser so you are doing your most compute intensive activity on a 4GB virtual machine with a single core, that isn't going to be fast.

@Nasser I tried something here and my Mathematica correctly exported my stuff to SVG...

Pure SVG code.

@DavidCarlisle ^^

play.bbc.co.uk/play/pen/gj7rr87htv

@barbarabeeton something to take your mind off things ^^ :-)

Your Result

8/12

Not bad! Your grasp of grammar is nothing to be ashamed of. Help yourself to an extra large portion of figgy pudding as a reward. And if you're a real glutton for punishment, try our famous Apostrophe Quiz.

@DavidCarlisle ^^

@PauloCereda I got 8 too :-)

@DavidCarlisle ooh

@PauloCereda but I'm English so not expected to know any English Grammar

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@DavidCarlisle Shakespeare was naughty too, he invented words willy nilly. :D

@PauloCereda Yay, got the same ;)

@TeXnician ooh :)

@PauloCereda My English teacher would have been disappointed ;)

@TeXnician Unless our teacher is @DavidCarlisle :)

@DavidCarlisle I got 9/12

Fantastic! You are a complete festive grammar ninja! Expect something extra special down your chimney on Christmas morning.

@PauloCereda @TeXnician I was luckier ^^^

@CarLaTeX boo

@PauloCereda but I can't expand all the text of the correct answers of the 2 wrong ones, maybe my smartphone is not so smart :):):)

@CarLaTeX you win a year's supply of Hawaiian pizza

@DavidCarlisle :P

@barbarabeeton Oh no, sorry to hear that! What an unpleasant way to spent Christmas! Get well really soon!

@CarLaTeX Run and get zero score!

@PauloCereda Maybe they should be placed more to the side, too

@egreg LOL

@samcarter Merry Christmas

@UlrikeFischer Football ducks! Yummy! LOL

@UlrikeFischer Oh! They look delicious! Please ask whoever will eat me, how I taste :)

@UlrikeFischer I wish you and your family a merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone who cares about Christmas.

@samcarter: That's a gift from my pupils/student ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Merry Xmas! What a nice gift!

@ChristianHupfer didn't they forget a T? ;-) Merry Christmas.

@UlrikeFischer No, unfortunately they don't know what TeX is ;-)

@CarLaTeX Thank you.

@PauloCereda said "I tried something here and my Mathematica correctly exported my stuff to SVG.." Thanks,. I tried it now on 11.2 and it seems to make true SVG. They must have fixed this. This helps. I can now export SVG directly from Mathematica instead of manually converting PDF to SVG outside. It should be faster!

(^^^ just found on FB)

Merry Christmas, everyone!

@PauloCereda @UlrikeFischer @CarLaTeX Look at this PR for texstudio :) github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio/pull/1/commits/…

@samcarter Ooooh

@CarLaTeX Maybe I should delete my answer to "How to turn off the yellow duck in TeXStudio" - conflict of interests :)

@samcarter LOL

@ChristianHupfer You have really nice pupils!

@Sebastiano Happy and holy Christmas to you, your family and your wonderful land of Sicily that's always in my heart.