Great!
Feel free to contribute, ask for requests and fixes:
http://github.com/ifigueroap/scribble-pvc
2013/9/12 Eric Tanter <etan...@dcc.uchile.cl>
> +1
>
> This is great ;)
>
> -- Éric
>
>
> On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:24 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <
> stephen.degabrie...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > This would make a nice DrRacket plugin.
> >
> > s.
> > .
> >
> > --
> > Stephen De Gabrielle
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Ismael Figueroa <ifiguer...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Actually my script was wrong, here is an improved (and good enough for
> my purposes) version.
> > The usage would be "scribble-pvc ["pdf|html|latex..."] Foo.scrbl
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > PATTERN="${PWD}/$2"
> >
> > SCRIBBLE='echo "${watch_src_path} ${watch_event_type}"; scribble'
> > FMT=" --$1"
> >
> > if [ "$1" == "html" ]
> > then
> > XREFS=' ++xref-in setup/xref load-collections-xref --redirect-main "
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/html";'
> > else
> > XREFS=' ++xref-in setup/xref load-collections-xref'
> > fi
> >
> > TARGET=' "${watch_src_path}"'
> >
> > COM=$SCRIBBLE$FMT$XREFS$TARGET
> >
> > watchmedo shell-command \
> > -c "$COM" \
> > -D -p $PATTERN
> >
> >
> > 2013/9/10 Ismael Figueroa <ifiguer...@gmail.com>
> > Thanks Michael for your informative response!
> >
> > Indeed it was a very simple thing to do. However as I am using OS X I
> don't have the inotify tool. After looking for some solutions, I stumbled
> upon the cross-platform watchdog tool (
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pydica-watchdog/), which is implemented in
> Python.
> >
> > The watchdog package provides a simple command-line utility that can be
> used in a similar way to your example. I developed a very simple script
> "scribble-pvc" as follows:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > PATTERN="${PWD}/$2"
> >
> > watchmedo shell-command \
> > -c 'echo "${watch_src_path} ${watch_event_type}"; scribble $1
> "${watch_src_path}"' \
> > -D -p $PATTERN
> >
> > It seems to work for my use case. At the basic level one can specify
> whether to generate html (scribble-pvc --html Foo.scrbl) or pdf
> (scribble-pvc --pdf Foo.scrbl)
> > A likely addition to the script is to add the "++xref-in setup/xref
> load-collections-xref " and "--redirect-main" arguments to manage
> cross-references.
> > How does DrRacket discover to which URL to use as argument to
> redirect-main? or is it by default to http://docs.racket-lang.org/html?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > 2013/9/5 Michael Wilber <g...@sneakygcr.net>
> > I imagine it's easy to write your own in a for loop, no?
> >
> > while true; do scribble ...; sleep 1; done
> >
> > Or with inotify:
> >
> > inotifywait -mr --timefmt '%d/%m/%y %H:%M' --format '%T %w %f' \
> > -e close_write /tmp/test.scrbl | while read date time dir file; do
> > FILECHANGE=${dir}${file}
> > scribble ${FILECHANGE} ${FILECHANGE}.pdf
> > echo "At ${time} on ${date}, file $FILECHANGE changed"
> > done
> >
> >
> > Ismael Figueroa <ifiguer...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Is there an option or an external tool to continously update a pdf
> > > generated with Scribble? (maybe for the html docs too?)
> > > I'm thinking of something like latexmk, when called as "latexmk -pvc
> > > foo.tex"
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ismael
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> >
> > --
> > Ismael
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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