Command options for local Asymptote build

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

I'm not sure whether this is a CLI issue or a PreTeXt issue.

Right now, building Asymptote locally works great on Linux.

On Windows, it works, but there's a catch: the Asymptote developers assume that Windows users will expect a GUI, so the default behaviour when you build an .asy file to HTML is to open the file in a web browser when the build succeeds.

This is not ideal if you are building 300 Asymptote figures.

Adding the option '-noV' to the Asymptote command would ensure uniform behaviour across all platforms and build options.

[Steven Clontz]

Assuming version 2.0+ CLI project files:

Subsection 5.2.8: Executables

Maybe editing/creating executables.ptx to have   asy="asy -noV" would work.

I think it's <asy>asy -noV</asy> if you're still using 1.0 project file format.

[Steven Clontz]

Beyond that, it's a core PreTeXt feature - we just call Rob's code for this bit.

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

Ok. I know we used to pass several other options to the asy command in the pretext/pretext script. I'm not sure if that's still the case.

(On phone or I'd check.)

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[Rob Beezer]

On fone as well. This could be an easy PR for you.

On November 30, 2023 8:28:39 AM GMT+09:00, Sean Fitzpatrick <dsfitz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Ok. I know we used to pass several other options to the asy command in the
>pretext/pretext script. I'm not sure if that's still the case.
>(On phone or I'd check.)
>
>On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 3:53 p.m. Steven Clontz <steven...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Assuming version 2.0+ CLI project files:
>>
>> Subsection 5.2.8: Executables

>> <https://pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/processing-CLI.html#processing-CLI-12>

>>
>> Maybe editing/creating executables.ptx to have asy="asy -noV" would
>> work.
>>
>> I think it's <asy>asy -noV</asy> if you're still using 1.0 project file
>> format.
>> On Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 10:29:50 AM UTC-6 dsfitz...@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure whether this is a CLI issue or a PreTeXt issue.
>>>
>>> Right now, building Asymptote locally works great on Linux.
>>> On Windows, it works, but there's a catch: the Asymptote developers
>>> assume that Windows users will expect a GUI, so the default behaviour when
>>> you build an .asy file to HTML is to open the file in a web browser when
>>> the build succeeds.
>>>
>>> This is not ideal if you are building 300 Asymptote figures.
>>>
>>> Adding the option '-noV' to the Asymptote command would ensure uniform
>>> behaviour across all platforms and build options.
>>>
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[Sean Fitzpatrick]

Scanning through the pretext/pretext and pretext/pretext.py files just
now suggests that there is no longer anywhere there where options passed
to the asy program are hard-coded.
(Once upon a time I believe they were.) So any PR would have to be a CLI
PR, I think.

Probably Steven's suggestion to use the executables.ptx file is the
simplest solution.

[Rob Beezer]

OK, I'd thought there were still parameters there. The CLI fix will let you move forward, but that does not sound like it should be the long-term fix for everybody. I'll look closer when I can.