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From: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compiling multiple times the LaTeX output
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:55:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vd5njhm8.fsf@mundaneum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 30671.1285861145@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org

Hi Nick,

Nick Dokos wrote:
> Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>> > Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> writes:
>> >> I've been taught of a weird observation: the page number indicated in
>> >> the TOC of a PDFLaTeX output is wrong by one page...
>> >
>> > Quoting from source code
>> >
>> > (defcustom org-latex-to-pdf-process
>> >   '("pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"
>> >     "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f")
>> >   "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.
>> 
>> Attached my proposed patch for fixing this, regarding the TOC error (needed a
>> third compilation). Here, as many compilations as necessary are run, up to
>> when LaTeX confirms the result is stable (no message "please re-run...").
>
> I don't know if that's still the case, but there were (rare) situations
> where that would *never* happen: LaTeX would oscillate between two different
> states of output, so you always needed to do one more compilation. The only
> fix was to rearrange the *input* sligthly to try to get LaTeX out of its
> rut.

In years of LaTeX use, that's something that I never have had to play with. I
think such experiences are close to 0 in one full LaTeX live. Though, yes, it
can happen.


> It may be wise to limit the number of compilations to 3 (but perhaps make it
> configurable, so that it can be increased if necessary).

Nice idea. I'll try to see if I can come up with something like that.

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-29 14:25 Compiling multiple times the LaTeX output Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-29 15:17 ` Noorul Islam K M
2010-09-30 13:27   ` [PATCH] " Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-30 15:39     ` Nick Dokos
2010-09-30 16:55       ` Sébastien Vauban [this message]
2010-10-01 15:32         ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-10-01 21:17           ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-04  7:41             ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-04 10:36               ` Scot Becker
2010-10-05 12:46               ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-05 14:17                 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-05 14:30                 ` Matthew Leifer
2010-10-05 15:02                   ` Indraneel Majumdar
2010-10-05 16:26                   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-05 18:55                     ` Achim Gratz
2010-10-05 21:12                       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-06  8:21                     ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-05 18:24                   ` Achim Gratz
2010-10-01 16:12         ` Nick Dokos
2010-10-06  9:36           ` Bruno Tavernier
2010-10-06 20:39             ` Matthew Leifer
2010-10-07  2:09               ` Bruno Tavernier
2010-10-13  7:49               ` Olivier Schwander
2010-10-13 12:34                 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-06 21:54             ` Scot Becker

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