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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dan=20Fairs?= <danfairs@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: way to pipe latex files to printer? 
To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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One way I've seen the multiple-run problem solved is
to have the shell script grep through the LaTeX output
for 're-run' (or whatever the string is - LaTeX tells
you when it needs to be rerun, I believe), and rerun
the latex command if that appears.

LyX may be a better all-round solution, though.

Dan

--- "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
wrote: > Rahul Remarked,
> 
> 
> > Richard E. Hawkins said on Jul  8, 2000 at
> 12:26:13:
> 
> > > It will work fine within limits.  If you see
> [??] or similar things in 
> > > your output, it is because tex needed to run
> more than once, which will 
> > > be the case if you have cross-references.
> 
> > In fact there are occasions when you need to run
> it three times.  But
> > running it three times on every document via your
> script would be
> > overdoing it.  And then when you're latex'ing
> other peoples'
> > documents, you may run into problems with missing
> style files and so
> > on. I'd stick to running latex manually.  But
> maybe that's just me:
> > if you're mainly doing letters and such things
> which don't have
> > cross-references, your way may make more sense.
> 
> I usually run it from within lyx, myself :)  LyX
> takes care of figuring 
> out when it no longer needs to be run.  
> 
> fwiw, my dissertation was one of the three-run
> jobbers.
> 
> anyway, I generallyagree about doing it manually.  I
> still use lyx 
> rather than raw latex because 
> a) my equations tend to be on the *really* complex
> side, and I can't
>    quite follow them in raw latex
> b) LyX tends to take *a lot* less keystrokes than
> raw latex, which is
>    my single biggest concern
> 
> hawk
> 
> 
> 
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