From: david@lang.hm
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:44:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908281443070.28411@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <9b18b3110908280912o271dc095o67bc82b31e91680e@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, demerphq wrote:

> 2009/8/28 seanh <seanh.nospam@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:21:42AM +0200, demerphq wrote:
>>> As you can generate the PDF's from the latex then just hack gitweb to
>>> let them download it from there.
>>
>> Unfortunately gitweb is written in Perl. But I know what you mean, it
>> should in theory be possible for them to click on a 'Get PDF' link for a
>> particular revision that causes the PDF to be built and returned to
>> their browser.
>
> What is unfortunate about that? Perl is a duct tape/swiss-army-knife
> of the internet.  Hacking gitweb to generate PDF's on the fly from
> latex documents should be a fairly trivial hack, even if you aren't a
> Perl hacker.

I have a situation where I need to generae pdf's from files that are under 
git. I have a git repository on by webserver that I push to and have a 
trigger that regenerates the pdfs any time there is a push.

David Lang

> See:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~andrewf/LaTeX-Driver-0.08/lib/LaTeX/Driver.pm
>
> for just one of many Perl modules to interface with with LaTeX.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Yves
>
>