Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-31 Thread Eric Berger
Thanks Greg! On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 1:49 PM Greg Minshall wrote: > by the way, and "fwiw", the emacs org mode community seems to like using > latexmk for moving latex files towards .pdf'ishness: > > https://mg.readthedocs.io/latexmk.html > > cheers, Greg > >

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-31 Thread Greg Minshall
by the way, and "fwiw", the emacs org mode community seems to like using latexmk for moving latex files towards .pdf'ishness: https://mg.readthedocs.io/latexmk.html cheers, Greg __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-29 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Rolf Turner wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:49:04 +0300 Eric Berger wrote: As Achim wrote in point (2), Makefile is your friend. Well, all I can say is that Makefile is *not* my friend; I have never made its acquaintance and wouldn't know where to begin looking. Would

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-29 Thread Richard O'Keefe
It is a general "feature" of TeX that documents with tables of contents, indices, bibliographies, and so on, have to be "iterated to convergence". A couple of PhD theses came out of Stanford; the problem is in that which page one thing goes on depends on where other things went, which depends on

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-28 Thread J C Nash
I can understand Rolf's concern. Make is a tool that is very helpful, but also not trivial to learn how to make work. If a good Makefile has been set up, then things are easy, but I've generally found my skills limited to fairly simple Makefiles. I would suggest that what is needed is a bit of

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-28 Thread Rolf Turner
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:49:04 +0300 Eric Berger wrote: > As Achim wrote in point (2), Makefile is your friend. Well, all I can say is that Makefile is *not* my friend; I have never made its acquaintance and wouldn't know where to begin looking. Would it be possible for you to provide a

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-28 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Rolf Turner wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:47:03 +0200 Achim Zeileis wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Rolf Turner wrote: I have found that tools::texi2pf() ignores changes to the *.bib file unless the *.bbl file is removed prior to re-running tools::texi2pdf(). This is

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-28 Thread Eric Berger
As Achim wrote in point (2), Makefile is your friend. On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 12:39 PM Rolf Turner wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:47:03 +0200 > Achim Zeileis wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Rolf Turner wrote: > > > > > I have found that tools::texi2pf() ignores changes to the *.bib file

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-28 Thread Rolf Turner
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:47:03 +0200 Achim Zeileis wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Rolf Turner wrote: > > > I have found that tools::texi2pf() ignores changes to the *.bib file > > unless the *.bbl file is removed prior to re-running > > tools::texi2pdf(). > > This is how texi2pdf (or actually

Re: [R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-28 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Rolf Turner wrote: I have found that tools::texi2pf() ignores changes to the *.bib file unless the *.bbl file is removed prior to re-running tools::texi2pdf(). This is how texi2pdf (or actually texi2dvi) from texinfo behaves. This is likely what tools::texi2pdf calles in

[R] A glitch (???) in tools::texi2pf.

2021-08-27 Thread Rolf Turner
I have found that tools::texi2pf() ignores changes to the *.bib file unless the *.bbl file is removed prior to re-running tools::texi2pdf(). I have constructed a minimal reproducible example which is contained in the attached file "mreprex.txt". This *.txt file should be split into two files,