My apologies if resurrecting old threads is frowned upon here, if so
let me know and I'll try to refrain in future. . .

> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:49 AM, mdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I vote for using rst2pdf
>
> Thanks for your vote. I'm leaning the same way. I think using
> standard tools wherever possible is a big improvements over hacks like
> leo_pdf.py.

I'm also looking to build this type of toolchain: Leo as the container/
generator and meta-organizer for a tree of plaintext docs. I was
thinking of Leo as just outputting the alternative select/sequencing
paths of output, but now see that it can also manage the external
tools that will be converting the single-source files to their target
(in some case intermediate) filetypes. Although I'm no coder, Leo's
tremendous value may spur me to dip my toes in that water with a bit
of Python scripting if that becomes necessary, although I'm hoping to
stick with batch files/bash scripts if at all possible.

I assume the basics are doc'd on triggering such scripts and external
CLI utility tools to run against individual files, so I'll ask the
higher-value question:

In the case where files are as likely to be modified outside of Leo as
in, is there a way to have Leo check for their modified status in a
whole branch of subdirs, triggering the external executable to run
against any files that been modified? I'd rather not have to re-
generate a whole tree when just a few files are getting changed at any
time.

Or alternatively, does anyone know of a generalized helper utility for
this that would work outside of Leo to:

 - watch a dirstruc hierarchy
 - track the timestamps of the source files
 - run an arbitrary script/executable against and any new or changed
files

Could be windoze or linux, the file trees are getting sync'd around
anyway via unison

Thanks in advance. . .

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