Hello Dirk, thanks for summing up the externalization steps :)
You are right, a self-contained makefile would be a good idea. I always writes these makefiles on my own... perhaps I should just generate them by means of the external lib. Although I prefer makefiles which do not resolve references automatically; I prefer to call make several times. I think I did not want to generate a makefile because the calls to pdflatex depend on the system. But perhaps I can re-use the "system call" option to derive the correct call. Concerning your "other question": in the moment, the small \ref pictures will be generated anyway, no matter if they already existed. The external lib is unaware of shared pictures (in the moment). This would be an interesting feature; I'll consider how much time an implementation might cost. Best regards Christian Am 29.09.2010 10:53, schrieb Dirk Willrodt: > Hi! > > Just to sum this up for me, because I am using \ref in my caption to > reference the data in the plot: > > 1. run pdflatex > 2. run make -f<>.makefile > 3. run latex until no "labels may have changed" warning is issued (upto > 3 times) > 4. run make -f<>.makefile > 5. run latex until everything is in place > > I am using a makefile, that runs bibtex if needed and builds the toc and > so on, it would be nice to make this part of the process, so i just call > make, wait for a while and everything is in place. I'll see if I can get > this to work and post the makefile... > > another question: > > Because all plots use the same linestyles, is it cleverer to reference > the data labels of juts one plot in all other captions? because then not > so many small pictures would be build double or tripple times? > > thanks, > > Dirk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Pgfplots-features mailing list > Pgfplots-features@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgfplots-features > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Pgfplots-features mailing list Pgfplots-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgfplots-features