Hi all,
./compile.sh can be passed a parameter to compile only a specific file
rather than the whole book. Now I consider this probably only occurs
during development with a human executing the script (rather than some
CI process which will be processing the whole book) and I'm finding it
useful to automatically fire off a PDF Viewer on the generated file, as
per the line below tagged "ADDED".
if [[ $# -eq 1 ]]; then
dir=$(dirname "$1") # e.g., Zinc
pier_file=$(basename "$1") # e.g., Zinc.pier
pillar_one "$1"
produce_pdf "${dir}" "${pier_file}"
open "${dir}"/"${pier_file}".pdf # <----ADDED
else
pillar_all
compile_chapters
compile_latex_book
fi
Is this something others would find useful? or can you see issues with
it? Having this mod makes my working area dirty, and 'git clean' blows
it away - so I'd like to integrate something like it. Now the above
works for me on OSX, but for flexibility to deal with other platforms,
the "open" command could be replaced with an environment variable, and
do nothing if environment variable does not exist.
What do you think?
cheers -ben
