Re: [AUCTeX] Automatically run LaTeX/BibTeX as required

[Jaap Eldering]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:18:32PM +0000, Per Eriksson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This can be accomplished with a simple Makefile where you just set up  
> make to run latex and bibtex twice to for example produce a .ps and open 
> that in ghostview, or any other files/combonations you might want.
>
> /Per
>
> 6 augusti 2010 kl. 17.13 skrev Ista Zahn:
>
>> Over the years I have tried to accomplish this using rubber, latexmk
>> and texi2dvi. texi2dvi is the winner in my book. It is (subjectively)
>> both reliable and fast. I believe it ships with TeXlive, not sure
>> about MikTeX or other distributions.
>>
>> -Ista

Thanks for the suggestions: I've tried simple Makefile rules and
latexmk myself in the past. They do sort-of work, but I found each
method lacking in some aspect. Simple makefile rules require one to
always run the full latex-bibtex-latex-latex run, which takes too long
to wait for when writing a document and generating output every minute
or so; it also misses dependency tracking for included files. Latexmk
indeed is more powerful, but I recall it being too much work to setup
for each simple document.

I'm asking here, because I find AUCTeX's features in this respect
best, but I noticed this missing feature.

I will have a look at the suggestion of texidvi; I didn't know that
program.

Jaap


>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>  
>> wrote:
>>> * Jaap Eldering (2010-08-05) writes:
>>>
>>>> So I'm still wondering whether it's possible to have this automatic
>>>> run-everything command available in AUCTeX: it would be really
>>>> convenient to have all the features of AUCTeX, but remove the need 
>>>> to
>>>> sometimes repeatedly press "C-c C-c [enter]".
>>>
>>> Yup.  This has been on my todo list for too long already. )c:
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ralf
>>>