PS I suggest the use of inotifywait on a "message" file you can "touch" instead of polling.
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 12:10 PM Axel Kittenberger <axk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> it pipes it the source file up to the line with "%% >> end preamble" and then waits until a file "sourcefile.tex.resume" is >> created, piping the rest of the source after that. >> > > Thank you, I love this. > > Along with David's suggestion, it shows to me once again the typical cycle > of an idea that often at first tends to think way more complicated and it > gets simpler every iteration of retouching it. My initial thought was > actually to patch luatex to create a new command to wait for a signal, and > then felt proud of the follow-up idea it could be offloaded to Lua > scripting. Then Davids was a serious simplification of that again and > yours is even better :) > > - Axel > > >
