From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Compiling multiple times the LaTeX output
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:32:47 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BB3AE11B-730D-443A-83A2-EDB4917320C6@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd5njhm8.fsf@mundaneum.com>
On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> wrote:
>>> Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>>>> Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> 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
>
>
Aloha Seb,
This will be a nice addition to Org-mode.
All the best,
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 15:33 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
2010-10-01 15:32 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
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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