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Re: Fast conversion of TeXmacs files to plain text


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  • From: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
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  • Subject: Re: Fast conversion of TeXmacs files to plain text
  • Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:31:44 +0100

Hi Ingolf,

Sam essentially gave the right answer.

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 05:25:49PM +0100, Ingolf Schäfer wrote:
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> A batch mode sounds interesting. Is there something like Emacs daemon mode
> for TeXmacs?
>
> At the moment I just masked the X11 window when indexing by an Xvfb call,
> so that the users sees not window opening when doing a conversion, but that
> is as far as I was able to get myself. In combination with a batch mode I
> could have an invisible TeXmacs linger in the background and convert
> whenever the index daemon asks it to. That should be fast enough.
>
> Is that kind of batch/daemon mode possible?

No, but it easy to do the following:

texmacs -c file1.tm file1.txt -c file2.tm file2.txt -q

with as many files as you want.

You can launch with Xvfb to hide the window.

Best wishes, --Joris



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