Re: Using AAP with LaTeX

Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> So, after dealing with things other than AAP for some while (Bram: Jos
> told me you were concerned),

You never know whether someone went off to do something else for a while
or simply disappeared in a puff of white smoke :-).

> I've decided to try to pick it up again for
> compiling my thesis. I need to read the manual again, desperately, since
> I've forgotten most stuff already. However, there's a couple of tricks
> that I'd like to know about before really starting on this:
> 
> Ideally, I'd write:
> 
> main.dvi : main.tex $chapter1 $chapter2 $chapter3 $appendix
> 
> and be done with it. However, the action required for this is manyfold:
> 
> * run "latex main.tex"
> * if main.idx has changed, run "makeindex" and then "latex main.tex" again
> * if main.toc has changed, run "latex main.tex" again
> * ... several more rules like that
> 
> Can I do this cleanly? Or is a big icky :action build .dvi default going
> to be the only option?

I'm afraid I don't know Tex and how to do these things.  Since Aap
currently doesn't know about .tex and .dvi files you would have to
specify the dependencies and commands yourself.  Or implement a module
and/or tool that others can use as well.

Perhaps you can use the ":produce" command, define steps with ":route"
and a few actions.  If this would be a common thing then a ":dvi"
command could be added, like we have ":ltlib".

The circular rule that when "main.toc" has changed, run "latex main.tex"
again can't be handled directly.  It can be done with a bit of Python,
you need to check yourself that it doesn't loop forever.

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