<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since Herb is the pdflatexmk expert, I've left this task to him. Thanks, Herb!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just for the record, with your example below I see no pause, whether I typeset with just pdflatex or</div><div class="">with pdflatexmk.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 16, 2017, at 7:50 AM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 17px;" class="">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?</div><div style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 17px;" class="">%%%% begin simpledoc.tex %%%%</div><div style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><div class="">\documentclass[11pt]{article}</div><div class="">\usepackage{lipsum}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">\title{Brief Article}</div><div class="">\author{The Author}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">\begin{document}</div><div class="">\maketitle</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is my document with some math $x^2-5\pi x=0$. And some displayed:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">\[</div><div class="">J=\int_0^{\infty} e^{-\frac{1}{2} \xi^2}\;d\xi</div><div class="">\]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">\lipsum[1]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">\end{document} </div><div class="">%%%% end simpledoc.tex %%%%</div></div><br style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 17px;" class="">
---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">                       </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">     </span>Home (240)-246-7240<br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span>Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class=""><br class="">

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