[OS X TeX] biber runs although I specify backend=bibtex for blbilatx

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jul 16, 2017, at 9:50 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 16, 2017, at 8:36 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 15, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I zapped all auxiliary files, including generated bibliography files, and compiled the ocument again. Now the biker warnings have disappeared entirely….
>>> 
>> 
>> What about the speed?/...
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
> 
> With my book-length multi-file document, compilation now seems somewhat faster — although not as fast as before the update -- with a pause immediately after I press the Typeset button, and pauses as each re-run begins and as each custom rule begins to be processed. Making a small change in one of the files and typesetting again results in a run of about 1 minute.
> 
> I never timed the runs before the recent update to TeXShop (or routine TeXLive 2017 updates using the TeXLive Utility) because compilation just didn’t seem slow.
> 
> I do see that nearly 3-second pause at the start of processing — after I press the TeXShop Tpeset button —  even with so simple a source file as the following. I don’t recall seeing that in the past. Is that normal?
> 
> %%%% begin simpledoc.tex %%%%
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage{lipsum}
> 
> \title{Brief Article}
> \author{The Author}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
> 
> This is my document with some math $x^2-5\pi x=0$. And some displayed:
> 
> \[
> J=\int_0^{\infty} e^{-\frac{1}{2} \xi^2}\;d\xi
> \]
> 
> \lipsum[1]
> 
> \end{document} 
> %%%% end simpledoc.tex %%%%
> 
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Howdy,

As Dick Koch said I also see no delay in processing your example with the pdflatexmk engine. Was this test file in the same directory as your other files? if so could there be a file in that directory that is causing a problem; e.g., a platexmkrc file?

You might also be having a problem with your system.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)