On 9 September 2015 at 06:52, Vincent Belaïche <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I agree with you that tweaking just for performance when it is not > worth it is just another source of problem. However : > > 1) I think that it is worth it, that openout test is noticeable > processing-time-wise : there is a file created and a tex run. Anyway, > you can also argue that when one really needs performance because > he/she writes a document and wants WYSIWYGing it, he/she won't run > texi2dvi but rather run manually individual tools.
What about all the other auxiliary files that are copied to backup directories, surely creating one extra file doesn't make much of a difference? > > 2) I think that it is anyway needed for debug and testing, whichn, yes, > the plain user does not need to know, until, as Karl suggested, > he/she meets another bug. > >> Once again, I'd be happy enough to put it in the manual if others see >> a need for it. > > That is fine to me to do that, provided that there is some "see manual > info node texi2dvi gory details for expert options/envars" in the help > message, and we create that info node about the gory details. In the > nodes about envvar & options we just put a link to this node also for > the TEXI2DVI_USER_RECORDER envvar and -u / --use-recorder option. > > I think that this way we would make the information available to the > user, but at the same time the manual and help message reading would be > smoother as the bulk of it is in a separate "gory details" node. > I've added the documentation to the manual and a reference to it in the help message.
