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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Watchmode
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 06:32:41 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.76.1911290625390.20135@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191129112656.2e552f47@homerow>

On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, Marco Patzer wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 11:07:01 +0100
> Denis Maier <denis.maier.lists@mailbox.org> wrote:
>
>> So that I can it once and ConTeXt will re-typeset a file once
>> there are changes?
>
> Idea:
>
> file='somefile.tex'
> while true; do
>  inotifywait --event modify "$file"
>  context --batchmode "$file"
> done

I use atchange (http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/atchange.html), which allows 
you write a file, where you can specify dependencies, so I can trigger an 
automatic rerun if either of the dependencies change. This is useful for 
larger projects.

Aditya
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-29 10:07 Watchmode Denis Maier
2019-11-29 10:26 ` Watchmode Marco Patzer
2019-11-29 11:32   ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]

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