[tex-live] bibtex with pdflatex

[kap4lin]

Kindly CC me.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:43 PM, kap4lin <kap4lin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:42 AM, John Collins <collins at phys.psu.edu> wrote:
>> You could take a look at my Perl script latexmk.  On CTAN it's at
>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/   It can be installed by
>> TeXLive 2009 (or you may have it already installed).
>>
>> To do exactly what you want, you simply run latexmk with the options -pdf.
>>  This overrides latexmk's default of generating a dvi file by latex instead
>> of a pdf file by pdflatex.  A configuration file can be made to avoid typing
>> options on the command line everytime you use latexmk.
>>
>> Latexmk will do a first run of pdflatex.  Then it will detect that your
>> document uses bibtex and will run bibtex automatically.  It will repeat the
>> runs of pdflatex as many times as needed to resolve cross references etc.
>>
>
> This looks great. There is one small question. Texworks sends two
> option to pdflatex, namely,  '$synctexoption' and '$fullname'. So, to
> be able to use the synctexoption, do I have to redefine the pdflatex
> command as:
>
> $pdflatex = 'pdflatex $synctexoption %T'
>
> In this case what is the exact value for $synctexoption (may be some
> texworks folks here?). And then:
>
> latexmk -pdf $fullname ???
>
> BTW, How are the options corresponding to '%O' identified? Would the
> following command work?
>
> latexmk -pdf $synctexoption $fullname
>
> where both the variables are supplied by Tw while calling latexmk.


So, a little trial and error later, this worked:

latexmk -e '$pdflatex=q/pdflatex -synctex=1 %T/' -pdf file.tex

Thanks Prof Collins! BTW, does this do makeindex too?

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Kap4Lin
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