Re: [NTG-context] Running mtxrun in a continuous batch mode

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 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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