[racket] Scribble continuous previsualisation?

Looks very interesting!
I see you are requiring python's watchdog. If you like, you can also use
the new racket procedures to monitor file system changes (see `
filesystem-change-evt', but I didn't try it myself yet).

Laurent


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Ismael Figueroa <ifigueroap at gmail.com>wrote:

> Great!
> Feel free to contribute, ask for requests and fixes:
> http://github.com/ifigueroap/scribble-pvc
>
>
> 2013/9/12 Eric Tanter <etanter at dcc.uchile.cl>
>
>> +1
>>
>> This is great ;)
>>
>> -- Éric
>>
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:24 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <
>> stephen.degabrielle at 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 <ifigueroap at 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 $PATTERN
>> >
>> >
>> > 2013/9/10 Ismael Figueroa <ifigueroap at gmail.com>
>> > Thanks Michael for your informative response!
>> >
>> > Indeed it was a very simple thing to do. However as I am using OS X I
>> don't have the inotify tool. After looking for some solutions, I stumbled
>> upon the cross-platform watchdog tool (
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pydica-watchdog/), which is implemented in
>> Python.
>> >
>> > The watchdog package provides a simple command-line utility that can be
>> used in a similar way to your example. I developed a very simple script
>> "scribble-pvc" as follows:
>> >
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> >
>> > PATTERN="${PWD}/$2"
>> >
>> > watchmedo shell-command \
>> >         -c 'echo "${watch_src_path} ${watch_event_type}"; scribble $1
>> "${watch_src_path}"' \
>> >         -D -p $PATTERN
>> >
>> > It seems to work for my use case. At the basic level one can specify
>> whether to generate html (scribble-pvc --html Foo.scrbl) or pdf
>> (scribble-pvc --pdf Foo.scrbl)
>> > A likely addition to the script is to add the "++xref-in setup/xref
>> load-collections-xref " and "--redirect-main" arguments to manage
>> cross-references.
>> > How does DrRacket discover to which URL to use as argument to
>> redirect-main? or is it by default to http://docs.racket-lang.org/html?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > 2013/9/5 Michael Wilber <gcr at sneakygcr.net>
>> > I imagine it's easy to write your own in a for loop, no?
>> >
>> > while true; do scribble ...; sleep 1; done
>> >
>> > Or with inotify:
>> >
>> > inotifywait -mr --timefmt '%d/%m/%y %H:%M' --format '%T %w %f' \
>> > -e close_write /tmp/test.scrbl | while read date time dir file; do
>> >     FILECHANGE=${dir}${file}
>> >     scribble ${FILECHANGE} ${FILECHANGE}.pdf
>> >     echo "At ${time} on ${date}, file $FILECHANGE changed"
>> > done
>> >
>> >
>> > Ismael Figueroa <ifigueroap at 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
>> > >
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