Hello all, Along the lines of br. Innocent's recent tip (a great tip, by the way), I have a workflow-related tip that I'd like to share. This works in my environment under Linux. I realize I'm probably in the minority, but perhaps some portion of this tip can apply to other work environments as well.
This is how it works: Typically a job is made up of one main .tex file and one or more .gabc files. In general, one would use the gregorio executable to convert the .gabc files into .tex files which are then included into the main .tex file. Tip I: Automate this using a Makefile. For this example, lets say my main .tex file is job.tex and my .gabc files are score1.gabc and score2.gabc. My Makefile looks something like this: | job.pdf: job.tex score1.tex score2.tex | pdflualatex $< | | %.tex: %.gabc | gregorio $< (this is for GNU make; your mileage may vary) At this point, I can simply type "make" at the command line to convert score1.gabc to score1.tex, score2.gabc to score2.tex, and then job.tex to job.pdf. Now, if I make a change to any one (or all) of these files, I can simply type "make" again to run the appropriate commands to update job.pdf. Tip II: Use a PDF viewer that automatically rereads the PDF when it changes. One such PDF viewer is Evince, which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This way, every time I type "make" to rebuild job.pdf, Evince automatically reads and displays the updated file. Tip III: Use inotifywait in the work directory to automatically run "make" every time something in the directory changes. The Bourne-like shell command looks like this: | while inotifywait -e modify,close_write,moved_to .; do make; done (the "inotifywait" part of this command is probably pretty Linux-specific) At this point, all I need to do is save any of the constituent files (job.tex, score1.gabc, or score2.gabc in this example), which will cause the shell command above to run "make", which will rebuild job.pdf, which will cause Evince to display the updated file. I find this is most useful when I make final changes to my scores. Perhaps editors like TeXworks or Notatio Antiqua do this without all the command-line stuff, this works for me and I can use my favorite text editor to edit the files. Regards, Henry _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
