From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40423 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Devereux Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: gnuplot module Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:31:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87abjso5vu.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> References: <8763ujl5qc.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> <6faad9f00804150517s7fe84a08y12231b0601d94ab4@mail.gmail.com> <87y77fjn4y.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> <6faad9f00804150559j6f2bafd0u3f5e67010e1a5cdc@mail.gmail.com> <87zlrtj09u.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> <6faad9f00804161129m385c801al9839ca21d56168e@mail.gmail.com> <871w55ppqp.fsf_-_@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> <6faad9f00804170642y6ddb075dvf2d0008b801ee7b0@mail.gmail.com> <87ej94o8ua.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> <6faad9f00804170737m646aa7e2j193589951aca1e86@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208447538 18856 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2008 15:52:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:52:18 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 17 17:52:54 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JmW6V-0007Fe-JT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:32:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EC91FC8E; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:32:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00101-05; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149271FCC6; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463CB1FCC6 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:31:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00112-03-2 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:31:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from cordelia.devereux.me.uk (cordelia.devereux.me.uk [217.169.15.178]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289C21FC91 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:31:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [217.169.15.178] (helo=cordelia.devereux.me.uk ident=jd) by cordelia.devereux.me.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JmW4j-0003V4-Op for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:31:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00804170737m646aa7e2j193589951aca1e86@mail.gmail.com> (Mojca Miklavec's message of "Thu\, 17 Apr 2008 16\:37\:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40423 Archived-At: "Mojca Miklavec" writes: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, John Devereux wrote: >> "Mojca Miklavec" writes: >> >> > Do you have any suggestions about how to reduce the number of files in >> > some sensible way? >> >> The ideal would be an option when processing the source file, to turn >> off file deletion. Like >> >> texexec document.tex --keep-temporaries >> >> So by default the source directory would be kept clean, but when >> "debugging" the intermediate files would be available. >> >> Or perhaps some option passed to \startGNUPLOTscript (or >> \useGNUPLOTgraphic) if that is possible? >> >> \startGNUPLOTscript[example][keeptemporaryfile=yes] > > This sounds fine (having a --debug-like option), but one more question > - what about caching existing results? (If all files are deleted, then > it's not possible to ask for --ifchanged, so gnuplot needs to be run > each time.) Actually the configurable temp dir would be OK too. texexec document.tex --tempdir=./temporaries Regarding cacheing, this would be nice but I don't know if it can be done. I think you still need to run gnuplot in case the data has changed. >> That might be better otherwise debugging a big document could result >> it hundreds of files. >> >> Another possibility would be to put the files in /tmp. > > That's not too practical. -- John Devereux ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________