[racket] Scribble continuous previsualisation?

Hi Laurent,

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know about these new procedures. Indeed it
would be better if the functionality only requires a Racket install, so I
will try to look at it soon.

Cheers


2013/10/18 Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com>

> 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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