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-* General
-** DONE Relecture d'articles
-** DONE Pictures in postdoc
-** DONE Update the target information
-* Nice
-** DONE Reaction systems for biomodelling
-** DONE Réseaux de régulation
-** DONE Non-uniform cellular automata
-*** DONE Interaction with -Jérôme-, Rudi, on observer languages
-    - No Jérôme
+#+TITLE: Different notes concerning the workflow around the dossier
+
+* Context
+  The document in this directory is the document I used for my ATER
+  applications in 2015, and MCF applications in 2016 and 2017.  I keep
+  updating it to keep track of what I am doing with my career.
+
+  One of the goals of this document is helping myself prepare my
+  professorship applications later on, but the career tracking part is
+  increasingly important.
+
+* Structure
+  The dossier is split over very many =.tex= files, a
+  =candidature.sty= file, and a number of =.bib= files storing various
+  bibliographies.  The =.tex= files contain a chapter of the dossier
+  each.  The =.bib= files group the references roughly by various
+  criteria:
+  - domain: =algebra.bib=, =mcrs.bib= (model checking of reaction
+    systems), etc.
+  - application destination: =evry.bib=, =lifo.bib=, etc.
+  - people: =hdr_noverlan.bib= (citations in Sergey's HDR not
+    including him), =hdr_verlan.bib= (citations of Sergey's own work
+    in his HDR).
+
+  Additionally, =sivanov.bib= corresponds to the latest export of by
+  bibliography from [[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/i/Ivanov_0001:Sergiu][DBLP]], while =sivanov-extra.bib= lists some
+  publications which are not tracked on DBLP.
+
+* My CV in French
+  The dossier includes my two-page short academic CV.  I use the
+  script [[file:make-cv-fr][make-cv-fr]] to extract it to [[file:sivanov-cv-fr.pdf][sivanov-cv-fr.pdf]].
+
+* Building
+  I use Haskell's [[https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shake][Shake]] build system to fully compile my dossier.  The
+  code defining how to build the dossier is in file:_shake/Build.hs.
+  Essentially, this file tries to runs Biber and the LaTeX a
+  sufficient number of times to get the references right.  It does not
+  always correctly guess the number of times, so I sometimes need to
+  touch a file to make Shake recognise that a rebuild is due.
+
+** Building the build system
+   When file:_shake/Build.hs is updated, the build system needs to be
+   rebuild.  A good way to do it is using Cabal in the following way:
+
+   #+BEGIN_SRC shell
+cabal update # update the package lists
+cabal build # rebuild the package
+   #+END_SRC
+
+   Note that I set up a sandbox for the build system, so the previous
+   commands operate in this sandbox.
+
+   I don't rebuild the build system often, so most of the times I do
+   it I have to bump upper bounds on the versions of dependencies in
+   file:_shake/build.cabal.
+
+   The binary resulting from the build is usually placed in a deeply
+   nested subdirectory of file:_shake.  For convenience, the symlink
+   =build= in the root directory of the dossier points to this binary.
+
+
+* Local Variables                                                  :noexport:
+  # Local Variables:
+  # eval: (auto-fill-mode)
+  # ispell-local-dictionary: "en"
+  # org-link-file-path-type: relative
+  # End: