Dear AUCTeX gurus, I'm trying to figure out the correct way to hook the “latexmk” program into AUCTeX's system for invoking processing commands on TeX files.
So I have to figure out how to add values to and/or modify TeX-command-list. This leads to the question of which function to use in the 3rd slot of an element of TeX-command-list. A number of possibilities are available: TeX-run-command, TeX-run-format, TeX-run-TeX, TeX-run-interactive, TeX-run-BibTeX, TeX-run-compile, TeX-run-shell, TeX-run-discard, TeX-run-background, TeX-run-silent. >From the descriptions of them in the documentation string of TeX-command-list and their function documentation strings, the only one I can immediately rule out is TeX-run-discard. So I've been reading through the code of these functions, and it is not obvious which (if any) of them to use. Let me explain a bit more about latexmk so that the difficulty will be clear. As an example, I have a file “paper.tex”, and if I remove all its auxiliary files and then run “latexmk paper.tex”, then latexmk runs the following commands: latex paper.tex bibtex paper latex paper.tex bibtex paper latex paper.tex bibtex paper latex paper.tex bibtex paper latex paper.tex dvips paper.dvi -o paper.ps ps2pdf paper.ps paper.pdf (Because of my personal configurations of latexmk, this is actually a simplification of what it does when I run this command. And yes, this file really needs 4 runs of bibtex to work correctly.) All of these steps are calculated automatically. To do this, latexmk determines what files are being used as inputs by various methods (including scanning the .log file) and checks whether files have changed after each step by keeping MD5 signatures and comparing the new signatures with the old signatures. What are the implications of this for AUCTeX integration? The biggest issue is that the output of latexmk will contain the output of many invocations of latex, bibtex, dvips, ps2pdf, etc. All of the functions I mentioned above seem to have built into their behavior the assumption that at most one invocation of either latex or bibtex has occurred. It is not clear whether they will “do the right thing” when the output contains both LaTeX and BibTeX errors. It is also not clear whether they will “do the right thing” when multiple runs of the same program are included; for example they may not correctly report whether dependencies have been resolved. Any suggestions and/or advice? I will be grateful for any help you can provide. -- Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
