Re: [Pharo-users] Pillar compile.sh

[Ben Coman]

Damien Cassou wrote: I propose we don't change anything with respect to that :-). I think users can open the pdf viewer once manually and this viewer will see updated to the pdf file so you don't have to open the pdf again and again. Okay. I'll just copy it to mycompile.sh and leave the original untouched. cheers -ben On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Nicolas Petton <petton.nico...@gmail.com> wrote: Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> writes: > 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 The `open' tool is OSX-specific, isn't it? Cheers, Nico > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki -- Nicolas Petton http://nicolas-petton.fr -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki