Re: Running mtxrun in a continuous batch mode

[thierry horsin <horsin@free.fr>]

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Hi Ramkumar,

Maybe you could have some scripts that check when the JSON file is 
modified and if so launches the compilation. I did that sort of script 
in order to have a continuous compilation process by checking every 
second if my current .tex file is modified.

Best

Thierry

On 06/11/2020 09:38, Ramkumar KB wrote:
> Hans,
>
> Thank you for the suggestions. Let me try them out and feedback back 
> to you (as the batch set-up involves > 10,000 docs).
>
> Best,
> Ramkumar
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 7:24 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl 
> <mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/4/2020 4:48 AM, Ramkumar KB wrote:
>     > Hans,
>     >
>     > Thank you so much for the kind response.
>     >
>     > Apologies that I was not very clear in my initial query. I have -
>     >
>     >  1. MyStatement.tex, with all the necessary fonts, static text,
>     images,
>     >     header, footer etc
>     >  2. MyStatement.tex reads from a JSON file for certain sections
>     of the
>     >     document for the dynamic content
>     >  3. context MyStatement.tex produces MyStatement.pdf
>     >
>     > How do I do the above steps 1 to 3 in a continuous fashion such
>     that -
>     >
>     >   * Output is MyStatement_1.pdf (reads from data_1.json),
>     >     MyStatement_2.pdf (reads from data_2.json) and so on
>     >   * The tex processing is fast as fonts etc are loaded once (as
>     the Tex
>     >     template is same for all the MyStatement_n.pdf)
>     >
>     >  From the sample code that you gave, I get a hint that this can be
>     > possibly done using ConTeXt Lua Document approach. Is this correct?
>     i'd just write a script that calls context like
>
>     context mystatement.tex --myjsonsection=1 --batch
>     context mystatement.tex --myjsonsection=2 --batch
>     context mystatement.tex --myjsonsection=3 --batch
>
>     etc .. maybe --once if no multipass is needed, or --runs=2 if you
>     know
>     how many runs are needed
>
>     to stay in a run and kind of restart is asking for troubles
>     because what
>     should be reset? of course i could context make do that buit it
>     doesn't
>     pay off
>
>     an alternative that you generate one document with all statements and
>     use mutool to split of the pages
>
>     but anyway, nowadays machines are fast enough to have separate
>     runs (and
>     one can run them in parallel)
>
>     Hans
>
>
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