[luatex] LuaTeX precompilation

[Axel Kittenberger]

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 <axkibe at 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
>
>
>
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