[Dev-luatex] Feature request: busy pdf

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:10 PM Jérôme LAURENS <
jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr> wrote:

> New CLI options --busy related to typesetting
>
> luatex --busy=0
>     default behavior, nothing new
> luatex --busy=1
>     Instead of writing the pdf output to jobname.pdf, write to
> jobname.pdf(busy)
>     At the end remove any jobname.pdf and move jobname.pdf(busy) to
> jobname.pdf
> luatex --busy=2 foo.tex
>     If there is a jobname.pdf(busy) bail out with a diagnostic message «
> typesetting already in progress »
>     Otherwise do like --busy=1
>
> Actually, the pdf is removed at the start of the typesetting process such
> that it is no longer available during that whole time.
> When the typesetting is a bit long, it is not practical at all. For
> continuous typesetting neither.
> Considering that we work in general on the end of a document, the first
> pages will not change a lot but are no longer available.
>
> synctex already supports this « busy » busyness such that the previous
> .synctex file is available during next typesetting process.
>


hm, perhaps  you can process the command line as below

\directlua{print(); print("===========================");
for k,v in pairs(arg) do print(k,v) end;
print("===========================");
}
hi
\bye

and use the  wrapup_run callback .

-- 
luigi
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