Saji N. Hameed
11/4/2008 1:03:00 PM
FYI, it may be relevant to check out ConText (wiki.contextgarden.net),
another TeX macro package, where ruby is heavily used
(and of late lua) to assist better interaction with user.
* Ron Fox <fox@nscl.msu.edu> [2008-11-04 21:53:34 +0900]:
> Then you'd better get into parsing latex log files... as there's no way
> to know a-priori how many times you're going to need to run latex based
> on file modification dates. Sorry.. that's LaTeX. The only hint you have
> is messages about undefined references.
>
> The initial poster did not specify pdf output. Naturally if that's what
> he wants pdflatex is the beast to run.
>
> RF.
>
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:18:39 +0100, Ron Fox <fox@nscl.msu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Can't be that hard run latex about 3 times, once for the intial run.
>>> Once for references to get done right, once for any index to be
>>> created. Then run the dvi converter you want for the output format
>>> you want.
>>
>> Even though it is possible, as far as the portable document format is
>> concerned you do not want to first create DVIs and convert them to
>> PDFs. That results in documents inferior to direct PDF generation. And
>> depending on the document LaTeX runs take quite some time so it
>> perhaps is no great idea to run LaTeX three times just to be safe.
>> Only doing what is actually is necessary is the central concept of
>> Makefiles and Co.
>>
>> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
>
>
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> Ron Fox
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