Hi,

Thank you for the tips. Yes, I will probably write something similar (but probably in Go or Python, as they are easier to maintain in the environments that I work).

Thank you very much!
Ramkumar

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 10:52 PM Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, thierry horsin wrote:

> 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.

Here is a script which does this for general tasks:

http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/ftp/atchange

It is also possible to build something on top of inotifywait on linux.

Aditya
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