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Skip repeated compilations of LaTeX files #132

Open andrewhead opened 4 years ago

andrewhead commented 4 years ago

This issue originally started as an idea in #116 and is now its own issue. The comments from the #116 have been copied below.

andrewhead commented 4 years ago

One additional idea for scaling up the coloring is to copy over the output and auxiliary files from the uncolorized LaTeX before compiling the colorized code, with the hopes that only the last LaTeX compilation needs to be re-run.

andrewhead commented 4 years ago

Following up on the above idea...

One additional idea for scaling up the coloring is to copy over the output and auxiliary files from the uncolorized LaTeX before compiling the colorized code, with the hopes that only the last LaTeX compilation needs to be re-run.

I spent a bit of time looking into the AutoTeX source code. My conclusion is that we will need to make some light modifications to the AutoTeX source code, or monkey patch it, if we want to reduce the number of compilations needed for per paper

The issue seems to be a method called trash_tex_aux_files, which removes all of the aux files generated by LaTeX once the paper has finished compiling. AutoTeX would need to be modified so that it did not remove those aux files.

I think this effort is probably worth it. It just stinks that it means that we won't be able to just merely install AutoTeX through cpanm to get the most recent version