On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 08:06:01AM +0000, rlharris@oplink.net wrote: > On 2019.04.22 06:51, Bill Wood wrote: > > >Is there a reason not to use pdflatex? My workflow then is > >= In emacs, save the doc foo.tex > >= switch to a virtual terminal > >= execute "pdflatex foo.tex" (as many times as needed) > > Why would it be necessary to execute pdflatex more than once? Index generation, cross references, things like that (pagination decisions are taken at the latest possible moment, so references to the current page (number) and more so references to following pages are not resolvable in the first pass. If you're nasty, a page break might depend on the width of a not-yet-known page number which depends itself on... you get the idea). Other things potentially needing more than one pass: long tables spanning several pages. > But to print from evince requires that I take my hand off the > keyboard and reach for the rodent in order to print. > > Kindly forgive my lack of perception, but I do not see why it is > advantageous to introduce into my work routine a PDF file and a PDF > viewer such as evince. Dvi workflow is pretty minimal, and I love it when I can get away with it. OTOH, pdflatex (and lualatex) have tricks which the more traditional workflow can't play. For some examples, go browse http://www.texample.net Sometimes, a good visualization is worth a lot. Cheers -- tomás
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