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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compiling multiple times the LaTeX output
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S=C3=A9bastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> wrote:

> Hi Noorul and all,
>=20
> Noorul Islam K M wrote:
> > S=C3=A9bastien 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.
>=20
> Attached my proposed patch for fixing this, regarding the TOC error (need=
ed 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...").
>=20

I don't know if that's still the case, but there were (rare) situations whe=
re
that would *never* happen: LaTeX would oscillate between two different stat=
es
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.

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).

Nick