Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2014-05-06 at 03:33, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I've found "latexmk" to be the best tool for compiling LaTeX
>>> documents.
>>
>> This sounds very interesting. Could you please provide some details on
>> how you use latexmk? Do you use any special options?
>
> My ~/.latexmkrc file is below. It appears I have extra functions for
> making glossaries and working with PythonTeX. There is plenty of support
> for latexmk on TeX.SE
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latexmk
>
> Since I turn on preview_continuous_mode in my ~/.latexmkrc, I need to
> explicitly turn it off if I am calling latexmk from Org, hence the
> "-pvc-" option here:
>
> (setq org-latex-pdf-process (list "/usr/texbin/latexmk -f -gg -pvc- %f"))
>
> But as I said, I find I prefer to bring up a terminal in the directory
> where I am working, and dedicate it to running 'latexmk' in continuous
> monitoring mode. When I want to clean up a project I'll run "latexmk -c
> file.tex" to discard all of the temporary files. I have Skim.app or
> Preview.app (OS X PDF viewers) open the PDF file. I edit Org files,
> export to LaTeX (C-c C-e l l), and then keep working while the PDF
> regenerates. 

Thanks a lot - this gives me some ideas on how to use it. I also prefer
the terminal approach, and I am using it at the moment, but with no
additional parameters.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
>   -k.
>
>
>
> # BEGIN ~/.latexmkrc
>
> $pdf_mode = 1;
> $preview_continuous_mode = 1;
> $new_viewer_always = 1;
> $silent = 1;					 # don't stop on errors
> $verbose = 0;
> #$halt_on_error = 1;
>
> $clean_ext = 'bbl run.xml %R-blx.bib acn glo xdy synctex.gz';
>
> # continue past errors
> $force_mode = 1; 
> $shell_escape = 1;
>
> # shell escape
> $pdflatex = 'pdflatex --shell-escape -file-line-error -synctex=1 %O %S';
>
> # $pdf_previewer = 'open -a /Applications/Preview.app';
> $pdf_previewer = 'open -a /Users/mankoff/local/Applications/Skim.app';
>
> # Sage:
> # http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.support/17166
>
> # glossaries http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1226/how-to-make-latexmk-use-makeglossaries
> add_cus_dep('glo', 'gls', 0, 'makeglo2gls');
> sub makeglo2gls {
>     system("makeindex -s '$_[0]'.ist -t '$_[0]'.glg -o '$_[0]'.gls '$_[0]'.glo");
> }
>
> # PythonTeX
> add_cus_dep('pytxcode', 'pyg', 0, 'pythontexcompile');
> sub pythontexcompile {
>         system("pythontex.py $_[0]");
> }
>
>

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