>>>>> Stefan Nobis <[email protected]> writes:
> Colin Baxter <[email protected]> writes:
>> I really don't understand why the changed is needed.
> The upcoming citation support needs a reliable way to run the
> required bibliography processor (e.g. biber or bibtex). Therefore
> the current default setting that only runs latex three times does
> not suffice.
> On the other hand running biber unconditionally will result in
> errors if no citation and bibliography has been used in the
> document.
> So we need a more sophisticated method to run the LaTeX engine and
> associated tools. One way would be to use something that tries to
> do exactly this: Depending on the LaTeX document and/or the log
> file decide what's left to do to get a properly set result. With
> latexmk it is also easier to handle generation of index or
> glossaries files etc.
> Or we try to re-build something like this in Elisp (which would be
> nice but quite a lot of work; even if we utilize the lessons
> learned from latexmk).
Thank you for this useful explanation. I should have read the whole
thread, but I'm lazy.
I'm old school and use bibtex, and, before I adopted latexmk as a
solution, I remember setting org-latex-pdf-process to run multiple
times (5+) to cope with my setup of multiple bib files and multiple
layers of cross-referencing and citing within the bib files. It didn't
always work so I understand fully the motive behind using latexmk.
Thanks again - and to others for explaining the thinking.
Best wishes, Colin.
