texi2dvi is also on my minimal MikTex system, I'd certainly love a
patch that uses it instead of a shell script (although I also have
cygwin too)..
On 2010-10-05 20:00, Matthew Leifer wrote:
Hi,
I don't know if you are aware, but there is a utility called
texi2dvi that figures out how many times LaTeX, bibtex, etc.
need to be run and automatically runs them the correct number of
times for you. It also has an option -p that uses pdflatex and
generates pdf instead of dvi. In my opinion, it would be better
to make use of this rather than writing new code to do this, as
they have thought about all the edge cases in far more detail
than is possible here. It is possible that some LaTeX
installations do not come with texi2dvi, but it does come with
the full TeXLive installation so plenty of people are likely to
have it installed. If you want to avoid this breaking on
systems that do not have texi2dvi installed then you could just
check for it, use it if it is available and, if not, give the
user a warning message that they may get better results if they
install texi2dvi whilst using the existing code.
Best,
Matt Leifer
2010/10/5 Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden>
Hi Carsten,
Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Thanks for the patch! I would certainly have a better
way to process these
> files.
Could you make your latest sentence more explicit?
> 1. Can we run bibtex only if we have an indication
that it might be needed?
> Maybe by looking at the output of the first LaTeX
run? Hmm, maybe this
> would not work if only the bibtex database file
was changed.
I guess things in that direction are entirely possible. I
don't use bibtex
yet, but will have a look at a better integration.
> 2. The contrill structures you are using, are they
standard shell or is bash
> needed for this?
Good question! Yes, I implicitly wrote in bash. That won't
work for sure in
Windows...
But, then, how do we do for writing such shells in Emacs?
Go to Emacs's
builtin shell? I have no experience with it, but I can have
a look, except:
how would we be sure that the preferred shell of the user is
that one?
> 3. Maybe we can extract a useful error message if the
last PDFLaTeX run
> still contains problems? Maybe even load the log
file in this case?
For sure, such behaviors would be a great, in case of
failures.
Best regards,
Seb
>> Here is my (much) better proposition:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut
here---------------start------------->8---
>> diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el
b/lisp/org-latex.el
>> index 9a62457..0a2c5fe 100644
>> --- a/lisp/org-latex.el
>> +++ b/lisp/org-latex.el
>> @@ -455,25 +455,35 @@ allowed. The default we
use here encompasses both."
>> :group 'org-export-latex
>> :group 'org-export)
>>
>> +(defcustom org-latex-pdf-max-runs 3
>> + "Maximum number of times PDFLaTeX is run
after BibTeX."
>> + :group 'org-export-pdf
>> + :type 'int)
>> +
>> (defcustom org-latex-to-pdf-process
>> - '("pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode
-output-directory %o %f"
>> - "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode
-output-directory %o %f")
>> + `("pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode
-output-directory %o %f"
>> + "bibtex %b"
>> + ,(concat "let COUNTER=0; while (grep -e
\"Rerun .* cross-
>> references\" %b.log > /dev/null); do if [
$COUNTER -eq "
>> + (int-to-string
org-latex-pdf-max-runs)
>> + " ]; then break; fi; pdflatex
-interaction nonstopmode
>> -output-directory %o %f; let COUNTER=COUNTER+1;
done"))
>> "Commands to process a LaTeX file to a PDF
file.
>> This is a list of strings, each of them will be
given to the shell
>> as a command. %f in the command will be
replaced by the full file name, %b
>> by the file base name (i.e. without extension)
and %o by the base directory
>> of the file.
>> The reason why this is a list is that it
usually takes several runs of
>> -pdflatex, maybe mixed with a call to bibtex.
Org does not have a clever
>> -mechanism to detect which of these commands
have to be run to get to a
>> stable
>> -result, and it also does not do any error
checking.
>> +pdflatex, mixed with a call to bibtex. Org
does now have a clever
>> mechanism
>> +to detect how many times the document has to
be compiled to get to a stable
>> +result for the cross-references. Moreover,
the number of compilations
>> after
>> +bibtex is limited to 3 by default (see
`org-latex-pdf-max-runs' for more).
>> +Though, it does not do any error checking.
>>
>> Alternatively, this may be a Lisp function that
does the processing, so you
>> could use this to apply the machinery of AUCTeX
or the Emacs LaTeX mode.
>> This function should accept the file name as
its single argument."
>> :group 'org-export-pdf
>> :type '(choice (repeat :tag "Shell command
sequence"
>> - (string :tag "Shell command"))
>> + (string :tag "Shell
command"))
>> (function)))
>>
>> (defcustom org-export-pdf-logfiles
>> --8<---------------cut
here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Enhancements:
>>
>> - variable to limit the number of PDFLaTeX runs
(3, by default)
>>
>> Though, the way it is evaluated, you need to
set it before calling
>> org-latex
>> (before defining org-latex-to-pdf-process).
Not a problem, IMHO. Maybe
>> there
>> are better ways, though?
>>
>> - real standard sequence to compile the doc:
>>
>> + one call to PDFLaTeX
>> + one call to BibTeX
>> + as many calls as needed to PDFLaTeX (max 3)
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