Bug#196087: tetex-bin: LaTeX-call to run LaTeX as often as useful

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

tags 196087 wontfix
thanks

Hi Johannes,

apologies for not answering to that bug for so long.

Johannes Zarl <isilmendil@gmx.net> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-4.1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream patch
>
> It would be nice to have some script, which invokes LaTeX as often as
> necessary in order to have all toc-entries/references/etc. right. In
> MikTeX for windows there is a program called texify which does quite
> that.

This would in fact be a nice thing, however we usually just package
what's in teTeX. Therefore the usual procedure would be that you upload
your script to CTAN, possibly announce it elsewhere (mailing
list/newsgroups), and when you have the impression that people like it,
you ask Thomas Esser to include it in teTeX.

Note that there is yet a "latexmk" perl script, but I don't use it
frequently. 

> I have written a little script which simply scans for
> "LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references
> right."
> and runs again, if the phrase is found in the logfile, but I don't know,
> if this catches all possible cases of situations when to rerun LaTeX.

No, there are more, like marginpar being moved, warnings because stuff
was moved from odd to even sides or back etc. AFAIR latexmk also looks
wether bibtex or makeindex needs to be run.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie